Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Marjorie Taylor Greene over 'dumb blonde' joke on Twitter Ocasio-Cortez to voters: Tell McConnell 'he is playing with fire' with Ginsburg's seat MORE (D-N.Y.) on Thursday blasted plans by Republican governors to reopen businesses in the immediate future, saying these plans would send “vulnerable workers to die.”

“Trump has NO PLAN to get people safely back to work. GOP Govs like [Georgia's Brian] Kemp are sending vulnerable workers to die w/ false claims of safety,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday in response to a tweet by former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sarah Elizabeth SandersSarah Sanders on Trump's reported war dead criticism: 'Those comments didn't happen' Sarah Sanders memoir reportedly says Trump joked she should hook up with Kim Jong Un McEnany stamps her brand on White House press operation MORE Sanders accusing her of wanting Americans to “boycott work.”

“Trump also pushed an unproven, dangerous treatment as a 'cure' & firing experts who want to vet claims,” she added. “Last thing you care abt is safety.”

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And by the way, setting up vulnerable workers to grind 70 hours a week to barely survive and STILL not have health insurance is unsafe too. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 23, 2020

“And by the way, setting up vulnerable workers to grind 70 hours a week to barely survive and STILL not have health insurance is unsafe too,” she added.

Kemp has announced the state will begin rolling back restrictions on some businesses, including tattoo parlors, hair salons and bowling alleys, beginning Friday. Democrats have criticized the plan, as have President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE and Rep. Doug Collins Douglas (Doug) Allen CollinsLoeffler paints herself as 'more conservative than Attila the Hun' in new campaign ad Vulnerable GOP incumbents embrace filling Supreme Court seat this year Georgia GOP Senate candidates cite abortion in pushing Ginsburg replacement MORE (R-Ga.), a vocal Trump ally who is challenging Sen. Kelly Loeffler Kelly LoefflerJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Tumultuous court battle upends fight for Senate Grassley, Ernst pledge to 'evaluate' Trump's Supreme Court nominee MORE (R-Ga.) for her seat.

Trump has repeatedly promoted the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine, frequently prescribed to treat lupus and malaria, as a potential cure or treatment for the virus despite limited anecdotal evidence of its efficacy. The largest analysis to date of the drug as a treatment for coronavirus found no evidence of benefit and increased deaths.

Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet also alluded to Rick Bright, a doctor who has claimed he was removed as the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for prioritizing scientific research over funding for hydroxychloroquine in the search for cures and treatments for the coronavirus.