Pelosi clashes with reporter about AOC directing shutdown negotiations

Former home speaker Nancy Pelosi got here in a pointy change with a reporter on Wednesday after being requested if Republicans ought to negotiate with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., to place an finish to the continual closure of the federal government.

“There was a considered the Republicans that AOC directs this, and he or she stated that senators are welcome to go on to her workplace. Does she drive that?” The reporter requested Pelosi.

“Why do you say so ridiculous matter?” Pelosi shot again.

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi referred to as the concept that rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez negotiations between Democrats and Republicans results in the continual closure of the federal government ‘ridiculous’. (Alex Wong/Getty photographs)

The reporter’s query adopted on Tuesday night on MSNBC from Ocasio-Cortez on MSNBC, the place she informed the Republicans: “My workplace is open and you’re free to stroll in and to barter immediately with me.”

Pelosi rejected the concept that Ocasio-Cortez is aiming for negotiations and emphasizes that home mining chief Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Democrats leads within the conversations.

“She is nice, she is an actual group participant, and the remainder of that,” she informed the reporter. “You began saying that Republicans say she is directing this. She is just not, Hakeem is Jeffries, and this prices a whole lot of expertise, a whole lot of unity from the caucus when it comes to the place, and that’s what that is.”

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Pelosi added that Ocasio-Cortez is an “articulated spokesperson for her place” earlier than he repeats that it’s Jeffries who leads the negotiations with Republicans.

This isn’t the primary time that Pelosi has checked the affect of Ocasio-Cortez inside the Democratic Social gathering.

After a dispute in 2019 on a border financing legislation reverse by Ocasio-Cortez and different progressive Democrats, Pelosi informed the New York Instances: “All these folks have their viewers and their twitter world, however they didn’t observe. They’re 4 folks, and that’s what number of votes they’ve.”

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In a report that was printed by Punchbowl on the finish of final 12 months, the outlet wrote that Pelosi “actively labored to” turn into Ocasio-Cortez’s supply to turn into the main democrat within the Home Oversight Committee by “calling” on behalf of her opponent, the late Rep. Gerry Connolly from Virginia.

Ocasio-Cortez finally misplaced its bid resulting from a margin from 131 to 84 in a secret temper taken by the Democratic Caucus.

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