AOC Blasts Moderate Dems Critical of $3.5T Budget Resolution: ‘They’re Conservative’

AOC Blasts Moderate Dems Critical of $3.5T Budget Resolution: ‘They’re Conservative’

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, took aim at moderate colleagues critical of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats aim to pass with a party-line vote, describing them as "conservative."

Roll Call reporter Lindsey McPherson reported Wednesday that eight to 10 moderate Democrats were considering voting against the massive spending package if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi does not quickly schedule a vote to pass the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal approved by the Senate this week. Progressive Democrats and Pelosi, a California Democrat, have maintained that the House will not pass the bipartisan deal without also approving the larger $3.5 trillion legislation in tandem.

"Conservative* House Democrats. Let's stop pretending that Dems who threaten to tank the President's agenda, kill childcare/Medicare expansion, and work w/ GOP to expand the cruelest parts of our immigration system are 'moderate,'" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday, sharing the news reported by McPherson.