AOC rips a possible $1 trillion infrastructure bill: ‘That’s the annual budget for NYC alone, but spread thin for everyone in the US.’

AOC rips a possible $1 trillion infrastructure bill: ‘That’s the annual budget for NYC alone, but spread thin for everyone in the US.’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is once again making it clear that progressives want to go big with social infrastructure spending, even amidst pushback from the moderate wing of the party. On Twitter, she wrote that a $1 trillion bill would come to just about $100 billion every year. "That's the annual budget for NYC alone, but spread thin for everyone in the US. Do you think that's enough to be impactful? To be widely felt in people's lives? It's not. Sufficiency is the bare minimum," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, implying that $1 trillion falls below her acceptable minimum. Indeed, New York City's most recent budget was just shy of $100 billion, according to . Infrastructure talks are currently at an impasse as Democrats hash out how much they're willing to spend on party-line social spending, in addition to the $1 trillion bipartisan package. That by the Senate, meaning it just needs to pass the House. Facing unified Republican opposition to the other measure, Democrats are debating a party-line bill of $3.5 trillion, which may be cut two-thirds in size. For months, progressives in the House, including Ocasio-Cortez, have stressed that they'll only vote on a bipartisan infrastructure package if it moves in tandem