Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Ocasio-Cortez rebukes Ivanka Trump 'as a person who actually worked for wages'

Congresswoman condemns first daughter’s comments to Fox News on Green New Deal’s living wage guarantee

Without calling her out outright, the Democratic freshman congresswoman and Twitter wonder Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday rebuked the first daughter Ivanka Trump for sounding off on something she could never truly understand: working for a living wage.

Describing her expertise “as a person who actually worked for tips and hourly wages”, Ocasio-Cortez essentially pointed out that Ivanka Trump has never had to work a minimum wage job in her life and that her comments on the Green New Deal jobs guarantee rang hollow.

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