Ocasio-Cortez Denies Fracture With Pelosi, Seeks Meeting
- Progressive lawmakers say in group interview they want to talk
- House on Tuesday rebuked Trump for telling them to ‘go back’
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Freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disputed the notion that there’s been any “fundamental fracture” between her progressive “squad" of lawmakers and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Ocasio-Cortez and the group’s three other members said in their first joint interview -- which aired Wednesday -- that they’re happy to sit down with Pelosi and work out their differences, which stem in part from a $4.5 billion border funding bill they said didn’t do enough to rein in the Trump administration on immigration.