Steve Scalise just tried to attack Ocasio-Cortez for her tax proposals and it backfired in humiliating fashion

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been in Congress for less than a week and she’s already fighting back against Republican propaganda and lies used to attack her with more intelligence and fervor that most other congressional Democrats have been able to muster.

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) — the congressman who survived a shooting attack at a Republican softball team practice session and who has called himself “like David Duke without the baggage — launched an assault on Twitter against the young representative after she had the temerity to suggest that the United States return to pre-Reagan era tax rates on America’s highest earners in order to fund her proposal for a “Green New Deal” that would refurbish infrastructure and create jobs while severely reducing carbon emissions in order to save the planet’s environment.

Rep. Scalise set up a false dichotomy in his tweet that compared a faulty representation of the GOP’s tax policy with a complete lie about what Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. Read more

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Steve Scalise just tried to attack Ocasio-Cortez for her tax proposals and it backfired in humiliating fashion

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been in Congress for less than a week and she’s already fighting back against Republican propaganda and lies used to attack her with more intelligence and fervor that most other congressional Democrats have been able to muster.

Steve Scalise just tried to attack Ocasio-Cortez for her tax proposals and it backfired in humiliating fashion

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been in Congress for less than a week and she’s already fighting back against Republican propaganda and lies used to attack her with more intelligence and fervor that most other congressional Democrats have been able to muster.