Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D‑NY) became the first Democrat to indicate she would vote against President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R‑CA) debt ceiling bill Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Examiner’s Reese Gorman that she would be voting against the debt ceiling bill. She also said that she believed other progressive Democrats would follow her lead, possibly opening up the floodgates of opposition to the bill in Congress. Several progressive Democrats have taken issue with the spending cuts toward social programs that McCarthy was able to push through in negotiations with Biden.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D‑N.Y., speaks during a news conference by the Congressional Progressive Caucus on the threat of default, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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