Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams top Biden advisor’s claim that the growing deficit would limit government spending under a potential Biden administration

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams top Biden advisor’s claim that the growing deficit would limit government spending under a potential Biden administration

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday raised the alarm after a top aide to presidential nominee Joe Biden said the burgeoning national debt might require more limited government spending. 

"When we get in, the pantry is going to be bare," Biden aide Ted Kaufman said. "When you see what Trump's done to the deficit “¦forget about Covid-19, all the deficits that he built with the incredible tax cuts. So we're going to be limited."

Ocasio-Cortez, who supports deficit spending and taxing the wealthy to fund programs like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, called Kaufman's remarks "extremely concerning."

"We need massive investment in our country or it will fall apart. This is not a joke," she went on. "To adopt GOP deficit-hawking now, when millions of lives are at stake, is utterly