Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who this week became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress — blasted Fox News for mocking her personal finances as a working-lesson person.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines after she revealed that she will not be able to afford an apartment in the expensive city of Washington until she gets her first salary as a congresswoman,the Huffington Post reported.
The 29-year-old Democrat representative-elect — who comes from a working-lesson background and used to serve drinks and tacos in Manhattan — said in a New York Times profile that the transition to being in Congress and moving to D.
C. will be “very strange” for her because she can’t steal a salary before being sworn into the office in January.I gain three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very genuine, or ” she said,per the Huffington Post.
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