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Progressive lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) remains skeptical over former Vice President Joe Biden’s current cabinet picks, telling reporters Wednesday that the overall agenda remains “a little hazy.”
“I think it’d be great to see a more cohesive vision across the entire Cabinet. You have an individual appointment here, an individual appointment there,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday, according to Politico.
“We can wrestle about whether they are bold enough or ambitious enough, especially given the uncertainty and what kind of Senate we’re going to have,” she continued, noting that the choices leave her with questions.
“I think one of the things I’m looking for, when I see all of these picks together is: What is the agenda? What is the overall vision going to be? I think that’s a little hazy,” the far-left “Squad” member said, adding that she is “trying to read into it” to find the “overall message” in the cabinet.
“And what is the agenda for it, because we have a person who has a more conservative history, that’s one thing, but what is the mission that they are being given in their individual agency, whether it’s Transportation, Defense, OMB, etc.? What is the mandate here?” she asked.
“And, yeah, I just think that’s something that we’re looking to see is, it’s something that I hope will be pushed,” she added.
Former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod has praised Biden’s picks, contending that the former vice president is following through with creating “the most diverse cabinet in history”:
“Look, Biden is following through on the pledge that he made as a candidate. He promised the most diverse cabinet in history — he’s delivering that,” he said during a November appearance on CNN Newsroom before listing examples:
Janet Yellen, the first [female] treasury secretary of the United States in the history of the republic. You know, Avril Haines over as the DNI, that’s historic as well. But I think we shouldn’t lose in Mayorkas, the new DHS secretary, we should point out, is a Cuban-American immigrant, also historic and symbolically important. But we shouldn’t lose in the historic nature of these picks the fact that as a group they’re very coherent, they reflect Biden’s governing philosophy, and they are manifestly experienced and competent. And in that sense, distinct from some of the appointments that we’ve seen under the current administration.
Ocasio-Cortez predicted in September that the far-left would be able to push Biden in a “more progressive direction” across various policy issues.
“There are some areas where we just fundamentally disagree, but that’s okay. I think it’s important to acknowledge that we can have, in some cases, very large disagreements — it doesn’t mean that we’re trying to undermine the party or undermine each other,” she said, adding that it “means that we’re trying to do what’s best for people in the country.”
In late-October, just days before the presidential election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) echoed those same sentiments in a virtual meeting with the far-left members of the “Squad.”
“But we understand that electing Biden is not the end-all. It is the beginning,” the Vermont senator said, stressing that progressives are “not giving up” on their agenda.
Democrats are poised to hold the slimmest Democratic Party majority in the House in over a century following Biden reportedly selecting Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., said it would 'be an honor to be vice president” in a recent Spanish-language interview Sunday before headlining a Las Vegas campaign event for Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The 30-year-old freshman congresswoman quickly pointed out that she falls five years short of the constitutional age limit to be vice president. The vice president – and president – must be at least 35 years old.
“It’d be an honor to be vice president,” Ocasio-Cortez told 'Noticias Telemundo' correspondent Guadalupe Venegas in Las Vegas. “I can’t because I’m not old enough.”
Ocasio-Cortez gave a keynote address at Sanders’ Spanish-language town hall in Las Vegas on Sunday. She endorsed him for the White House in October and could play a key role for the Vermont independent in seeking Nevada’s large Latino vote, differentiating himself from fellow progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“I was a community organizer in the Bronx for Sen. Sanders during the last presidential campaign,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “That was my first experience, organizing right there in the street for an election.”
“Before that, I did community work in education, with the Latino community and with the National Hispanic Institute, but that was my first time organizing for an election. It was an experience that I will never forget,” she continued. “It was an important part of my experience when I decided to run for Congress. I learned that there was another way of doing politics here in the U.S.”
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Also in her interview with “Noticias Telemundo,” Ocasio-Cortez, whose mother is Puerto Rican, reiterated how important it was for her to continue to practice her Spanish.
“If we are first- or second-generation, it is important that we cultivate our language. I must speak and practice more to improve my own Spanish. Our language is the link with our families and our communities,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She had tweeted that she was 'nervous' to host the town hall in Spanish because she doesn't speak the language often.
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She also spoke about how far she’s come over the past year and a half, since ousting a powerful incumbent Democrat in New York's 14th Congressional District in a June 2018 primary and then defeating a Republican in the general election that November.
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“Last year I worked in a taqueria, as a waitress and as a bartender, and now I am a congresswoman,” she said. “That is a huge change. But my values are the same. And we are saying the same thing we were saying last year: that we must fight for working families, for health insurance, for education for all children and a fair salary.”