Susan Sarandon Protests Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Outside Her Office: ‘We’re Losing Hope Here You Represent Us’

Susan Sarandon appeared at a protest against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the New York Democrat’s office in the Bronx on Monday, where Sarandon said the crowd was “losing hope” in her.

“I’m here to say to the squad, and especially AOC, who, you know did make a lot of promises, that we still have faith in you and we would like to see if you have a better plan than we’ve been able to see, please share it,” Sarandon said on a megaphone in front of attendees at the event, which was billed as a Medicare for All rally. “If there’s a pathway you’ve got that we’re not aware of please share it. Because we’re losing hope here that you represent us.”

The protesters were calling on President Joe Biden to declare Covid-19 a public health emergency as a way to enhance his executive power and expand Medicare, and to leverage the new system into “a fearless new campaign for single-payer” health care.

An announcement for the event said “progressive candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran on being activists fighting for change,” but claimed they didn’t do enough to slip the relevant legislative provisions into Covid-19 relief proposals.

“You didn’t demand a floor vote on it when you had the power to leverage the speaker vote. You didn’t demand that single-payer be included in the pandemic recovery bill,” the annoucement laments. “You moved the introduction of the House bill till after the stimulus bill passed, reducing your own leverage. You have never demanded that Biden use Section 1881A of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare to every American by executive action.”

Sarandon added in her speech: “It’s so difficult for people that are independent to get elected in the first place — and then to see the very people that sponsored the bill not stand up for it, is very disheartening.”

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