AOC Blasts ‘Disrespectful Men’ After Republican Demands She Stop Playing to the ‘Camera’ in Heated Hearing Exchange
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted her “disrespectful” colleagues at a Wednesday House hearing where potential Medicaid cuts as part of the budget were being debated.
At a hearing that went into the wee hours of the morning, Ocasio-Cortez raised the alarm about expanded work requirements being proposed for Medicaid, arguing that women who have suffered miscarriages should be exempt from those expansions. Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) at one point accused Ocasio-Cortez of grandstanding for the cameras.
“We’d like for you to address the Republicans. Let’s have a dialogue this way and not to a camera,” the congressman said.
Weber then yielded his time, but Ocasio-Cortez kept pressing on the miscarriage issue. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) grew frustrated and repeated that Weber had yielded his time and they needed to move on.
“The lady is out of order. The gentleman yields back,” he said.
Ocasio-Cortez continued, saying the proposed cuts could lead to women “bleeding out in parking lots.”
The congresswoman later dismissed the “camera” comment by literally addressing the camera in front of her.
“Speaking of where we are addressing and who we are addressing, there are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen right there. Hello! I’m talking to you because I work for you,” Ocasio-Cortez said to a camera. “And they deserve to see what is happening here. Because there are plenty of districts, including Republican ones, where 25% of your constituents are on Medicaid, 40% of your constituents are on Medicaid. And, yes, I am talking to you.”
The congresswoman was asked if she would yield her time and she refused, calling Weber’s comment “terribly disrespectful.” She yielded to a Democratic colleague after making her point.
“I am talking to them, and I will not yield, because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men,” she declared.
Watch above via CSPAN.
