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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells NPR: 'Everything feels increasingly like a scam'

www.kpbs.org Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells NPR: 'Everything feels increasingly like a scam'

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., about how Democrats are addressing President Trump's agenda.

Summary

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 35-year-old veteran lawmaker, spoke to NPR about her party’s path forward.

She predicts Republicans will face backlash over Medicaid cuts and federal worker firings.

Despite some Democrats suggesting a new immigration approach post-election, she maintains support for a path to citizenship and recently held a know-your-rights seminar that drew threats of investigation from Trump's border czar Tom Homan.

AOC told NPR "everything feels increasingly like a scam" for ordinary Americans while government serves the wealthy well.

Unlike Trump, she opposes drastically cutting government agencies but questions programs like Medicare Advantage.

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Our gov is taking our tax money and not showing us what they are doing with it. If its not a scam, show us where the money is going.
- Our gov is showing us what they do with the tax money. It is, in fact, all public information you can get with a couple seconds of digging (and has been that way for a LONG time).
  https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
  The only real black boxes of the government are military and espionage spending. Everything else is out in the open.
  
  That military black box is massive, and the pentagon hasn’t successfully completed one of its past seven audits. This is a prime area for reform and cost cutting, and yet house repugs just voted to add another 100 billion to its budget.
  AOC is correct, it’s a grift, and the billionaires and corporations are coming for what little we have left.
  
  For quick context for why that is. If memory serves right they at least used to slash the budgets of units who didn't use said budget up completely. As you can imagine that results in a shit tonne of wasteful spending for literally no reason, just corpo run it like a shitty business crap
  
  Does this include all the money that the government is giving to Elon Musk??
  
  Yes. Our government is actually really transparent. Granted, a lot of this wasn't apparent until DOGE claimed to bring transparency, and then everything they did was shown to be redundant or worse with existing systems.
  
  Even military isn't that opaque. The published numbers are HUGE.
- I agree. But I absolutely do not trust the richest man in the world, who was not elected at all, in charge of those funds. Dude already has been using it to funnel money into his own projects. You’ve handed the keys to your safe to a known burglar, and now you’re offering him blowjobs as well.
  
  Don't forget that he is also firing people who were investigating his companies.
- This is a dumb take. It's publicly available information
  
  No, I think the dumb thing to do would be to assume that the person who was convicted of 30+ felonies concerning a legal campaign financing is being fully transparent about his intentions and the amount of money he shifted over to the worlds, greatest billionaire(Musk). Also don’t forget that Donald Trump was convicted of a charity scandal and now he can’t run a charity inside the state of New York without court ordered supervision.
  Those government reports should be 100% truthful but if you’re willing to believe that they are under Donald Trump, then I have a bridge to sell you .
- Just not the uninformed shoddy lie filled way DOGE are.

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