WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off comments made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez equating border facilities for migrants to “concentration camps” by saying she wasn’t “up to date” on what the New York freshman said.

“These members of Congress, they come to represent their districts and their point of view and they take responsibility for the statements that they make,” Pelosi told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast when asked specifically about AOC’s comments and whether the speaker had talked to her young members about the “power of their words.”

“I’m not up to date with her most recent remarks,” Pelosi added. “I saw them on the news, but I haven’t spoken to her about that.”

AOC first hammered the Trump administration for putting migrants in “concentration camps” during an Instagram live Monday night. A day later, she tweeted a link to an Esquire article from last week that quoted a University of Virginia lecturer saying that concentration camps have a far larger meaning than usually associated with the Nazis during World War II.

That quickly evolved into a Twitter war with Republicans and Jews who were offended by the comparison to Holocaust imagery. Notably, she got into a back-and-forth with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 GOP member. Cheney went on Fox News Channel Tuesday night and called on Democratic leadership to call out AOC’s comments as well.

“But also, you see to the extent to which her colleagues and the people who are supposed to be leading the Democrats in the House, Speaker Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, won’t stand up and criticize what she’s saying and condemn those comments and those statements,” Cheney told Fox’s Ed Henry.

Very few top Democrats have commented on AOC’s statements directly.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) tweeted Tuesday , “One of the lessons from the Holocaust is ‘Never Again’ – not only to mass murder, but also to the dehumanization of people, violations of basic rights, and assaults on our common morality.”

“We fail to learn that lesson when we don’t call out such inhumanity in front of us,” Nadler advised.

Pelosi’s advice, however, was for her caucus to be careful with their words.

“I do have comments to make to the caucus at large about the political nature of — how politically charged that atmosphere is,” she told reporters Wednesday morning. “So understand that while the Republicans have no interest in holding the president accountable for his words, they will misrepresent anything that you say just — if you have one word in a sentence they can exploit.”

Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez kept digging her heels in.

“The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII. It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it,” AOC tweeted during the breakfast. “These camps occur throughout history. Many refuse to learn from that shame, but here we are today. We have an obligation to end them.”