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{{Short description|American politician (born 1989)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
| image = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Official Portrait.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2019
| state = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| district = {{ushr|NY|14|14th}}
| term_start = January 3, 2019
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Joe Crowley]]
| successor =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|10|13}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.<!--No boroughs/neighborhoods, just cities per format.-->
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| otherparty = [[Working Families Party]]{{efn|Elected on both [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and [[Working Families Party|WFP]] ballot lines in New York via [[Electoral fusion#New York|electoral fusion]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York's 14th Congressional District election, 2022|url=https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_14th_Congressional_District_election,_2022 |access-date=October 17, 2023 |website=[[Ballotpedia]]|language=en}}</ref>}}<br>[[Democratic Socialists of America]]{{efn|Democratic Socialists of America is not a registered political party, instead, it is a political organization for those with democratic socialist ideologies. The national DSA endorsed Ocasio-Cortez until 2024, though she remains endorsed by the New York City chapter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stein |first=Jeff |date=August 5, 2017 |title=9 questions about the Democratic Socialists of America you were too embarrassed to ask |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/5/15930786/dsa-socialists-convention-national |access-date=July 11, 2022 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Status of DSA National Endorsement for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.dsausa.org/statements/status-of-dsa-national-endorsement-for-rep-ocasio-cortez/ |publisher=DSA National Political Committee |access-date=June 11, 2024}}</ref>}}
| education = [[Boston University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| website = {{URL|https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov|House website}}
| signature = AOC Signature.svg
| module = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Town Hall Ep 08 (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez).ogg|title=Ocasio-Cortez's voice|type=speech|description=On [[Medicare for all]]<br/>Recorded April 28, 2019}}
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'''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez''' ({{IPAc-en|oʊ|ˌ|k|ɑː|s|i|oʊ|_|k|ɔːr|ˈ|t|ɛ|z|audio=En-us-Ocasio-Cortez.ogg}} {{respell|oh|KAH|see|oh|_|kor|TEZ}}, {{IPA|es|aleɣˈsandɾja oˈkasjo koɾˈtes|lang}}; born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials '''AOC''', is an American politician and activist serving since 2019 as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for [[New York's 14th congressional district]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].
 
Ocasio-Cortez was born in [[The Bronx]], where she lived for five years before moving to [[Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights]]. She attended [[Yorktown High School (New York)|Yorktown High School]] and later [[Boston University]], where she [[Double majors in the United States|double-majored]] in [[international relations]] and [[economics]], graduating ''[[Latin honors#Distinctions|cum laude]]''. She then moved back to the Bronx, becoming an activist and working as a waitress and bartender.
 
On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez drew national recognition when she won the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s [[2018 New York's 14th congressional district election#Primary election|primary election]] for New York's 14th congressional district. She [[2018 New York's 14th congressional district election|defeated]] [[Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives|Democratic Caucus Chair]] [[Joe Crowley]], a 10-term incumbent, in what was widely seen as the biggest [[Upset (competition)|upset]] victory in the [[2018 United States elections|2018 midterm election primaries]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Murphy |url-status=live |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york/ |title=A progressive insurgent just pulled off the biggest Democratic primary upset in years |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627041545/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Gregory Krieg CNN">{{cite news |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=June 27, 2018 |title=A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist just ousted a powerful, 10-term congressman in New York |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]]|location=Atlanta, Georgia |access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=in the '''most shocking upset''' of a rollicking political season |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627022605/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Merica |first1=Dan |last2=Bradner |first2=Eric |date=June 27, 2018 |title=The biggest night so far for progressives and other takeaways from Tuesday night's primaries |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/takeaways-tuesday-primaries-crowley/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=It was the '''most shocking result''' of 2018's political season so far{{spaces}}... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627163014/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/takeaways-tuesday-primaries-crowley/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She easily won the [[2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York|November general election]], defeating [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Anthony Pappas. She was reelected in the [[2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14|2020]] and [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14|2022]] elections.
 
Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is [[List of youngest members of the United States Congress|the youngest woman]]<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190">{{cite book |last1=Grigoryan |first1=Nune |last2=Suetzl |first2=Wolfgang |chapter=Hybridized political participation |editor1-last=Atkinson |editor1-first=Joshua D. |editor2-last=Kenix |editor2-first=Linda |title=Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising |year=2019 |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781498584357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ |pages=190 |access-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803205039/https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Watkins |first=Eli |date=November 6, 2018 |title=Ocasio-Cortez to be youngest woman ever elected to Congress |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=November 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107064936/https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever/index.html|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live }}</ref> and the first female member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) to be elected to Congress.{{efn|Alongside [[Rashida Tlaib]], who is a female DSA member that was elected in the same year.<ref name="vox_2018-06-27" />}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/21570/socialists-house-midterms-victor-berger-ocasio-cortez-tlaib |title=Socialists in the House: A 100-Year History from Victor Berger to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |last=Isserman |first=Maurice |author-link=Maurice Isserman |date=November 8, 2018 |website=In These Times |language=en-US |access-date=May 11, 2018 |archive-date=February 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211185504/http://inthesetimes.com/article/21570/socialists-house-midterms-victor-berger-ocasio-cortez-tlaib |url-status=live }}</ref> She advocates a [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] platform that includes support for [[workplace democracy]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2023-08-08 |title=Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy |url=https://nonprofitquarterly.org/unlikely-advocates-worker-co-ops-grassroots-organizing-and-public-policy/ |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=[[Nonprofit Quarterly]] |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Medicare for All]], [[Tuition payments|tuition]]-free public college, a [[Federal job guarantee|federal jobs guarantee]], a [[Green New Deal]], and [[Abolish ICE|abolishing]] the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). She is a prominent leader of the left-wing faction of the Democratic Party.
 
==Early life and education==
Ocasio-Cortez was born in the [[New York City]] [[Boroughs of New York City|borough]] of [[the Bronx]] on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Sergio Ocasio-Roman and Blanca Ocasio-Cortez ({{nee|Cortez}}).<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Alexandria |url=https://ocasio2018.com/about |publisher=Ocasio 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143050/https://www.ocasio2018.com/about |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She has a younger brother named Gabriel.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/ |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Brother Gabriel? He's an Artist and Musician |last=Igoe |first=Katherine J. |date=February 8, 2019 |magazine=[[Marie Claire]]|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212130932/https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/|archive-date=February 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father was [[Nuyorican|born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family]] and became an architect; her mother was born in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Vivian Wang Giant Slayer">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A Democratic Giant Slayer |last=Wang |first=Vivian |date=June 27, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090426/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="nyt-profile">{{cite news |first1=Andy |last1=Newman |first2=Vivian |last2=Wang |first3=Luis |last3=Ferré-Sadurní |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628072729/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Goldmacher>{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Goldmacher |first=Shane |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jewish, Too? |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 9, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119163841/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of [[Parkchester, Bronx|Parkchester]]<ref name="nyt-profile" /> until she was five, when the family moved to a house in suburban [[Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights]].<ref name="nyt-profile" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-03/rising-star-democrat-ocasio-cortez-defends-bronx-roots |agency=[[Associated Press]] |first=Stephen |last=Groves |title=Rising Political Star Ocasio-Cortez Defends Bronx Roots |date=July 3, 2018 |work=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715171023/https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-03/rising-star-democrat-ocasio-cortez-defends-bronx-roots |url-status=live }}</ref> She said her family was able to raise enough money to buy a small home there so she could go to school, and that her mother worked as a house cleaner in the town.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Dan |title=OCASIO-CORTEZ NOT PROUD OF WESTCHESTER ROOTS |url=https://yonkerstimes.com/ocasio-cortez-not-proud-of-westchester-roots/ |website=yonkerstimes.com |publisher=Yonkers Times |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=July 18, 2018}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez attended [[Yorktown High School (New York)|Yorktown High School]], graduating in 2007.<ref name="lohud.com 2018">{{cite web |first=Isabel |last=Keane |title=Bronx political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commuted to Yorktown for high school |publisher=lohud.com |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | access-date=December 1, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201052811/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | archive-date=December 1, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of "Sandy Ocasio".<ref name="Yglesias">{{cite web |last1=Yglesias |first1=Matthew |author-link1=Matthew Yglesias |title=Conservatives' Obsession With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's High School, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/1/4/18167175/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-yorktown-high-school |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|publisher=Vox Media |access-date=November 15, 2019 |date=January 4, 2019 |quote=There's nothing in any way extraordinary about the yearbook photos, though they do establish that she went by "Sandy Ocasio" at the time. |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101084511/https://www.vox.com/2019/1/4/18167175/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-yorktown-high-school |url-status=live }}</ref> She came in second in the [[microbiology]] category of the [[Intel International Science and Engineering Fair]] in 2007 with a research project on the effect of [[antioxidant]]s on the lifespan of the [[nematode]] ''[[Caenorhabditis elegans]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Intel ISEF Alumna Headed to Capitol Hill |url=https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill |publisher=Society for Science & the Public |access-date=December 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130232735/https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill|archive-date=November 30, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Georgia Frances |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a science-fair prize for research involving free radicals |date=December 1, 2018 |url=https://qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-research/ |work=Quartz |language=en |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=October 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014232106/https://qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-research/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the [[MIT Lincoln Laboratory]] named a small [[asteroid]] after her: [[23238 Ocasio-Cortez]].<ref name="Malloy Rising">{{cite news |last=Malloy |first=Daniel |title=This Berniecrat Aims to Unseat a Queens Power Broker |newspaper=[[Ozy Media|Ozy]] |date=June 23, 2018 |url=https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627115704/https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NASA">{{cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez |date=August 30, 2007 |title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser |last=Chamberlin |first=Alan |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809144242/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery |archive-date=August 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In high school, she took part in the [[National Hispanic Institute]]'s [[Lorenzo de Zavala]] (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended [[Boston University]]. Ocasio-Cortez had a [[National Hispanic Institute#John F. Lopez Fellowship (JFL)|John F. Lopez Fellowship]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year">{{Cite news |url=http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez named 2017 NHI Person of the Year |date=December 31, 2017 |work=NHI Magazine |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703180341/http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
After graduating from high school, Ocasio-Cortez enrolled at [[Boston University]]. Her father died of [[lung cancer]] in 2008 during her second year,<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Mark |last1=Lungariello |first2=Jonathan |last2=Bandler |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes heat for growing up in Westchester |publisher=lohud.com |access-date=September 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live |date=July 4, 2018}}</ref><ref name="InterceptInteview">{{cite web |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/ |title=An Interview With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Young Democratic Socialist Who Just Shocked the Establishment |last=Scahill |first=Jeremy |author-link=Jeremy Scahill |date=June 27, 2018 |website=The Intercept|access-date=September 4, 2018 |quote=One of the big decisions though was that I was at Standing Rock in December 2016{{spaces}}... The day after I got off camp, I was contacted by a progressive organization, Brand New Congress, which was seeking to mount non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903131318/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/|archive-date=September 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and Ocasio-Cortez became involved in a lengthy [[probate]] dispute to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn "first-hand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy".<ref name="Looks to dethrone">{{cite news |first1=Aida |last1=Chavez |first2=Ryan |last2=Grim |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |title=A Primary Against the Machine: a Bronx Activist Looks to Dethrone Joseph Crowley, The King of Queens |work=[[The Intercept]] |publisher=[[First Look Media]] |location=New York City |date=May 22, 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062529/https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> During college, Ocasio-Cortez was an intern for U.S. senator [[Ted Kennedy]] in his section on [[foreign affairs]] and [[Immigration|immigration issues]].<ref name="Mic">{{Cite news |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house |title=Meet the young progressive Latina trying to oust one of the most powerful Democrats in the House |last=Joyce |first=A.P. |date=February 28, 2018 |work=[[Mic (media company)|Mic]]|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612212215/https://mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In interviews, she said she was the only Spanish speaker in the office and the sole person responsible for assisting Spanish-speaking constituents.<ref name="Mic" /><ref name="snopes cum laude" /><ref>{{cite web|first1=Deepti|last1=Hajela|author-link1=Deepti Hajela|accessdate=2023-05-29|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former BU student, shocks Crowley in Democratic primary in NY - The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/06/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-former-student-shocks-crowley-democratic-primary/puBJbNvOnrSIdaOgyvM5sN/story.html|website=BostonGlobe.com|date=June 26, 2018}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez graduated ''[[cum laude]]''<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 22, 2011|title=Boston University Commencement 2011|url=https://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf|page=21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123135730/https://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf|archive-date=November 23, 2015}}</ref> from Boston University in 2011 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in both [[international relations]] and [[economics]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019|title=Distinguished Alumni Award|url=http://www.bu.edu/econ/alumni/distinguished-alumni-award/2019-awards/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111022831/http://www.bu.edu/econ/alumni/distinguished-alumni-award/2019-awards/|archive-date=November 11, 2020|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=Boston University Arts & Sciences: Economics}}</ref><ref name="snopes cum laude">{{cite web |title=Did U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Graduate Cum Laude from Boston University? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/ |first=Dan |last=Evon |date=April 3, 2019 |website=[[Snopes]]|access-date=August 10, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cepeda |first1=Esther J. |title=Despite Her Haters, Youth Is Not Wasted on Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-cepeda-column-st-0110-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=July 20, 2020 |date=January 9, 2019 |quote=There will always be people claiming she's 'unqualified', even though Ocasio-Cortez has an undergraduate degree in international relations with a minor in economics and has worked as an educator, a publisher and a community organizer. |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721002201/https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-cepeda-column-st-0110-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
==Early career==
After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight [[foreclosure]] of their home.<ref name="Huffpo - 5 reasons">{{Cite news |first=Willa |last=Frej |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_n_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |title=5 Reasons Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stands Out |website=[[HuffPost]] |publisher=[[Huffington Post Media Group]] |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717195620/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_us_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=GuardianWaitress>{{cite news |first=Lauren |last=Gambino |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: who is the new progressive star of the Democrats? |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London, England |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702140705/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |title=Diverse group of start-ups thriving at city-sponsored Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator in Hunts Point |last=Beekman |first=Daniel |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=July 17, 2012|access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022152/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Vincent|first1=Isabel|last2=Klein|first2=Melissa|date=March 10, 2019|title=Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes-1870-in-taxes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925164417/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes-1870-in-taxes|archive-date=September 25, 2019|access-date=September 25, 2019|website=[[Fox News]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit [[National Hispanic Institute]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/ |title=Collegiate World Series – The National Hispanic Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108045848/https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/|archive-date=January 8, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=January 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[National Post]] |first=David |last=Weigel |author-link=David Weigel |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-28-takes-out-10-term-congressman-in-new-yorks-democratic-primary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, takes out 10-term congressman in New York's Democratic primary |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=December 13, 2019}}</ref>
 
During the 2016 [[Primary election|primary]], Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for [[Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign|Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign]].<ref name="NYT" /> After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]], [[Michigan]], and [[Standing Rock Indian Reservation]] in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the [[Flint water crisis]] and the [[Dakota Access Pipeline protests|Dakota Access Pipeline]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Tim |last=Murphy |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off the year's biggest political upset |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022429/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live |date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to have access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to [[North Dakota]], where she saw others "putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community", inspired her to begin to work for her own community.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Piaella |first1=Gabriella |title=The 28-Year-Old at the Center of One of This Year's Most Exciting Primaries |date=June 25, 2018 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |website=[[The Cut (website)|The Cut]] |publisher=[[New York Media]] |location=New York City |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628013441/https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone call from [[Brand New Congress]], which was recruiting progressive candidates (her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016).<ref name="Brother">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thisisinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-biography-2019-1 |title=The Truth about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The inside story of how, in just one year, Sandy the bartender became a lawmaker who triggers both parties |last=Relman |first=Eliza |work=The Insider |quote=Soon after Election Day in 2016, Ocasio-Cortez's younger brother, Gabriel, sent her name to Brand New Congress, a Bernie Sanders-inspired group recruiting candidates for the House and Senate. When she got home from her North Dakota trip, a leader of BNC called her out of the blue with an ask: Will you run for US Congress in New York's 14th district? |date=January 6, 2019 |access-date=March 23, 2019 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091014/https://www.thisisinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-biography-2019-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> She has credited [[Jabari Brisport]]'s unsuccessful [[New York City Council|City Council]] campaign with restoring her belief in electoral politics, in running as a socialist candidate, and in [[Democratic Socialists of America]] as an organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2021/talking-socialism-catching-up-with-aoc/|title = Talking Socialism: Catching up with AOC |website=Democratic Left|date=Spring 2021|publisher=[[Democratic Socialists of America]]}}</ref>
 
== Elections ==
 
=== 2018 ===
{{Main|2018 New York's 14th congressional district election}}
[[File:AOC for Congress 2018 logo.svg|thumb|upright|Ocasio-Cortez's congressional campaign logo was inspired by "revolutionary posters and visuals from the past".<ref name="Budds 2018">{{cite news |last=Budds |first=Diana |date=July 2, 2018 |title=The brilliance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's bold campaign design |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152854/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref>|left]]
Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a [[Taco stand|taqueria]] in New York City's [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]].<ref name="Manriquez 2018">{{cite news |last=Manriquez |first=Pablo |title=The Gospel of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |newspaper=Roll Call |date=December 14, 2018 |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | access-date=January 27, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152848/https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | archive-date=January 27, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> "For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar," she told ''[[Bon Appétit]]''.<ref name="Cadigan">{{cite web |last=Cadigan |first=Hilary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Learned Her Most Important Lessons from Restaurants |website=Bon Appetit |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |date=November 7, 2018 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152946/https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was the first person since 2004 to challenge [[Joe Crowley]], the [[Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives|Democratic Caucus Chair]], in the primary. She faced a financial disadvantage, being outspent by a margin of 18 to{{spaces}}1 ($1.5{{spaces}}million to $83,000).<ref>{{cite news |last=Hajela |first=Deepti |author-link=Deepti Hajela |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Political novice Ocasio-Cortez scores for progressives in NY |url=https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627045914/https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2018 |work=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> She said, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game."<ref>{{cite web |first1=John |last1=Ferguson |access-date=November 25, 2019 |title=Talented US Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tipped to light up White House |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/talented-democrat-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-14080017 |date=March 3, 2019 |website=dailyrecord |archive-date=March 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303080514/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/talented-democrat-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-14080017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Anna |last1=Leigh |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Political Headliner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7mzDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5415-7747-3 |via=Google Books |access-date=November 25, 2019 |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218100226/https://books.google.com/books?id=N7mzDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Looks to dethrone"/> Ocasio-Cortez's campaign undertook [[grassroots]] mobilization and did not take donations from corporations.<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset-by-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Rep. Joe Crowley defeated in Democratic primary upset by newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |last=Chamberlain |first=Samuel |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=[[Fox News Channel]] | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627052138/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/26/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT" /> while Crowley was endorsed by multiple elected officials and other organizations.<ref name="UnderPressure">{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Briahna |last2=Grim |first2=Ryan |date=June 13, 2018 |title=Under Pressure From Progressives, Rep. Ro Khanna Endorses Both Democrats in Contentious New York Primary |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616192835/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |access-date=July 1, 2018 |website=The Intercept}}</ref><ref name="Planned" /><ref name="Planned">{{cite web|url=https://jacksonheightspost.com/crowley-ocasio-cortez-face-off-in-new-york-congressional-primary-tomorrow|title=Crowley, Ocasio-Cortez, Face Off in New York Congressional Primary Tomorrow|date=June 25, 2018|first=Nathaly|last=Pesantez|website=Jackson Heights Post|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=December 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202229/https://jacksonheightspost.com/crowley-ocasio-cortez-face-off-in-new-york-congressional-primary-tomorrow|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Kerri Evelyn Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez with [[Kerri Evelyn Harris]]]]
 
Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points on June 26, 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |title=New York State Primary Election Results |date=June 28, 2017 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722075921/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The result shocked many political commentators and analysts and immediately garnered nationwide attention. Many news sources, including ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', [[CNN]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''[[The Guardian]]'' mentioned how the win completely defied their predictions and expectations.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |last2=Martin |first2=Jonathan |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Defeats Joseph Crowley in Major Democratic House Upset |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627022115/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Ben |title=Democrats see major upset as socialist beats top-ranking US congressman |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627043320/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pulled Off the Biggest Upset of 2018 |last=Elliott |first=Philip |date=June 26, 2018 |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627201954/http://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gregory Krieg CNN" /> Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] and British politician [[Noam Chomsky]] congratulated her.<ref name="Seitz">{{cite news |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |title=High-ranking Democrat ousted in stunning primary loss to newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |work=[[NBC News]] |date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143539/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite interview |last=Chomsky|first=Noam|interviewer=Amy Goodman|title=Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Spectacular" Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |website=Democracy Now |access-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730205030/https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |date=July 27, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez faced Republican nominee Anthony Pappas, while Crowley remained on the ballot as the nominee of the [[Working Families Party]] (WFP) and the [[Women's Equality Party (New York)|Women's Equality Party]] (WEP) in the general election, neither of which actively campaigned.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sakellis |first=Eleni |date=June 17, 2018 |title=Prof. Anthony Pappas Running for Congress |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233512/https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2018 |newspaper=The National Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lovett |first=Kenneth |date=July 12, 2018 |title=Ocasio-Cortez rips Crowley for not giving up Working Families Party line |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720194943/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |archive-date=July 20, 2018 |access-date=July 20, 2018 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |location=New York}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by former president [[Barack Obama]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez/ |title=Obama announces endorsement for Ocasio-Cortez |last=Wise |first=Justin |date=October 1, 2018 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107224857/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (110,318) to Pappas's 14% (17,762). Crowley received 9,348 votes (6.6%). Her election was part of a broader Democratic victory in the 2018 midterm elections, as the party gained control of the House by picking up 41 seats.<ref>{{cite web |title=Certified Results from the November 6, 2018 General Election for U.S. Congress |url=https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |publisher=New York Board of Elections |access-date=January 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104180018/https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |page=6 |archive-date=January 4, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
=== 2020 ===
{{See also|2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14}}
[[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera]] challenged Ocasio-Cortez in the 2020 Democratic primary.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ocasio-Cortez Faces Two Challengers in NY1 Congressional Primary Debate|url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/06/nyc-elections-2020-whos-running-14th-congressional-district-debate-corona-sunnyside-throgs-neck|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=www.ny1.com|language=en|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023012102/https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/06/nyc-elections-2020-whos-running-14th-congressional-district-debate-corona-sunnyside-throgs-neck|url-status=live}}</ref> After Ocasio-Cortez won the nomination, Caruso-Cabrera reorganized and ran in the general election as the [[Serve America Movement]] nominee.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2020|url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2020|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=Ballotpedia|language=en|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325172131/https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challengers in the general election included nominee John Cummings, a former police officer, and Antoine Tucker, a write-in candidate.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Klar|first=Rebecca|date=May 26, 2020|title=Ocasio-Cortez challenger drops out of GOP primary|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499462-ocasio-cortez-challenger-drops-out-of-gop-primary/|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|archive-date=October 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018203529/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499462-ocasio-cortez-challenger-drops-out-of-gop-primary|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The ''[[The American Prospect|American Prospect]]'' wrote in October 2020 that Ocasio-Cortez was "spending the 2020 campaign running workshops" for constituents on workplace organizing, fighting eviction, and organizing childcare.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Brittany|date=October 15, 2020|title=The Politician as Organizer|url=https://prospect.org/api/content/fdde06bc-0f0a-11eb-a3c6-1244d5f7c7c6/|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=The American Prospect|language=en-us|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153206/https://prospect.org/politics/politician-as-organizer-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|url-status=live}}</ref> They noted that Ocasio-Cortez was often not featured in the streamed workshops, saying the "strategy decentralizes the candidate from her own campaign."<ref name=":0" />
 
On October 20, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez hosted a [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] stream of the [[social deduction game]] ''[[Among Us]]'', with fellow congresswoman [[Ilhan Omar]], and many established streamers such as [[Pokimane]], [[Hasan Piker]], [[DrLupo]], and [[mxmtoon]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Analysis {{!}} AOC playing 'Among Us' shouldn't surprise you. Streams are a beloved pastime.|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/10/21/aoc-twitch-stream-explained/|access-date=August 4, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> The stream peaked with over 400,000 viewers and, according to ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'s}} Joshua Rivera, succeeded in humanizing her.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rivera |first1=Joshua |title=AOC played Among Us and achieved what most politicians fail at: acting normal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/oct/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-among-us-twitch-stream-aoc |access-date=October 22, 2020 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025113529/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/oct/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-among-us-twitch-stream-aoc |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Farrell |first1=Jack |last2=Ferrell |first2=Harry |title=AOC just played 'Among Us' on Twitch. Over 400,000 people came to watch. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/aoc-just-played-among-us-twitch-over-400000-people-came-watch/ |access-date=October 22, 2020 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024144358/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/aoc-just-played-among-us-twitch-over-400000-people-came-watch/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kastrenakes|first=Jacob|date=October 20, 2020|title=AOC's debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest ever|url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21526164/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=[[The Verge]]|language=en|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021033529/https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21526164/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Abram|title=Almost 700,000 People Flock To Twitch To Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Play Hit Video Game 'Among Us'|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/20/almost-700000-people-flock-to-twitch-to-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-play-hit-video-game-among-us/|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=[[Forbes]]|language=en|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021174100/https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/20/almost-700000-people-flock-to-twitch-to-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-play-hit-video-game-among-us/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez again streamed ''Among Us'' on Twitch on November 27, 2020, with Hasan Piker, [[xQc]], [[ContraPoints]] and Canadian MP [[Jagmeet Singh]] to raise money for [[food pantries]], eviction defense legal aid, and community support organizations to assist those suffering [[Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holt |first1=Kris |date=November 27, 2020 |title=AOC will return to Twitch tonight for another round of 'Among Us' |url=https://www.engadget.com/aoc-twitch-among-us-jagmeet-singh-171253442.html |website=Engadget |access-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128122628/https://www.engadget.com/aoc-twitch-among-us-jagmeet-singh-171253442.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The stream raised $200,000 and Ocasio-Cortez wrote, "This is going to make such a difference for those who need it most right now."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Iovine |first1=Anna |date=November 28, 2020 |title=AOC raised $200,000 for charity on her 'Among Us' Twitch stream Friday |url=https://mashable.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-twitch-among-us-charity-stream/ |website=Mashable |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>
 
=== 2022 ===
{{See also|2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14}}
Ocasio-Cortez ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.<ref name=UC>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/aoc-cruises-to-renomination-uncontested-after-other-squad-members-faced-primaries | title=AOC cruises to renomination uncontested after other 'Squad' members faced primaries | date=August 24, 2022 }}</ref> She defeated Republican Tina Forte and [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative Party]] nominee Desi Cuellar in the general election.<ref>{{cite news |title=New York 14th Congressional District Election Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-district-14.html |access-date=November 9, 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 8, 2022}}</ref>
 
=== 2024 ===
{{see also|2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14}}
Investment banker Marty Dolan, a moderate Democrat, ran against Ocasio-Cortez in the primary. She won overwhelmingly.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC defeats moderate challenger in Democratic primary |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/25/aoc-wins-ny-14-democratic-primary/74207567007/ |website=usatoday.com |publisher=USA Today |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref>
 
In May, the DSA debated whether to endorse Ocasio-Cortez. Some members argued that she was more committed to the Democratic Party and that her positions on Palestine had become weaker.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=Curtis |title=Ocasio-Cortez is Committed to the Democratic Party, Not DSA |url=https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/ocasio-cortez-is-committed-to-the-democratic-party-not-dsa/ |website=dsausa.org |publisher=Democratic Left |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref> On June 23, the DSA National Political Committee (NPC) voted to endorse her so long as she fulfilled its list of demands, most concerning Palestine. The New York City chapter, which endorsed her, rejected the deal. On July 10, the NPC withdrew its endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez. It mainly cited a panel she held with Jewish leaders that supposedly conflated antisemitism with [[anti-Zionism]]. Other concerns included her support for a resolution that characterized denial of Israel's [[right to exist]] as antisemitism and her support of the [[Iron Dome]] defense system.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dsausa.org/statements/status-of-dsa-national-endorsement-for-rep-ocasio-cortez/|title=Status of DSA National Endorsement for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez|publisher=Democratic Socialists of America|date=July 10, 2024|accessdate=July 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Democratic Socialists of America Pulls AOC Endorsement After She Spoke Out Against Antisemitism |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-07-11/ty-article/.premium/democratic-socialists-of-america-pulls-aoc-endorsement-after-speaking-out-on-antisemitism/00000190-a209-dd20-abfa-fe1fb1360000 |website=haaretz.com |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |title=Ocasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists' Endorsement Over Israel |work=The New York Times |date=July 11, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/aoc-dsa-endorsement.html |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
 
== Tenure ==
[[File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - 2019-01-16 Speech about an immigrant constituent.webm|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez's maiden speech as a Representative, addressing the [[2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown]]]]
 
Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is [[List of youngest members of the United States Congress|the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress]], and also the youngest member of the [[116th Congress]].<ref name="116th">{{cite web|date=December 17, 2020|title=Membership of the 116th Congress: A Profile|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45583.pdf|access-date=February 27, 2021|publisher=[[Congressional Research Service]]}}</ref>
 
When the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Ocasio-Cortez entered with no [[seniority]] but with a large [[social media]] presence. [[Axios (website)|''Axios'']] credited her with "as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats combined".<ref name="axiosnov">{{cite web |url=https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats, combined |last=McCammond |first=Alexi |author-link=Alexi McCammond |date=November 28, 2018 |publisher=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128220300/https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html|archive-date=November 28, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=December 3, 2018}}</ref> {{As of|2024|6|since=y}}, she has 13.1{{spaces}}million [[Twitter|X]] (formerly Twitter) followers,<ref name="socmedia1">{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/AOC |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) |via=Twitter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101050812/https://twitter.com/aoc|archive-date=January 1, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 13, 2019}}</ref> up from 1.4 million in November 2018<ref name=axiosnov/> and surpassing Nancy Pelosi.<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/tlaib-aoc-new-congress.html |title=Liberal Freshmen Are Shaking the Capitol Just Days into the New Congress |first=Catie |last=Edmondson |date=January 6, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062712/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/tlaib-aoc-new-congress.html|archive-date=January 13, 2019|url-status=live |author2=Emily Cochrane |author3=Lisa Friedman}}</ref> She has 8.1 million [[Instagram]] followers as of June 2024<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/ocasio2018/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) |via=Instagram |access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107080109/https://www.instagram.com/ocasio2018/|archive-date=January 7, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 1.8 million followers on [[Facebook]] as of June 2024.<ref name="Benwell 2019">{{cite news |last=Benwell |first=Max |title=💃😂✊: How Ocasio-Cortez beat everyone at Twitter in nine tweets |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 12, 2019 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215032241/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> Her colleagues appointed her to teach them social media lessons upon her arrival in Congress.<ref name="Benwell 2019"/> In a 2019 interview, Ocasio-Cortez said she had stopped using her private Facebook account and was minimizing her usage of all social media accounts and platforms, calling them a "public health risk".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.acast.com/skullduggery/aocunfiltered |title=AOC unfiltered {{!}} Skullduggery on acast |last=acast |date=April 15, 2019 |website=acast |access-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153118/https://play.acast.com/s/skullduggery/aocunfiltered |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a 'public health risk' |first=Hamza |last=Shaban |date=April 15, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505023510/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
=== Arrival ===
In November 2018, on the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of [[House Minority Leader]] [[Nancy Pelosi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |title=On her first day of orientation on Capitol Hill, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez protests in Pelosi's office |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |work=[[USA Today]] |date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127083133/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Also that month, she backed Pelosi's bid to be [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] once the Democratic Party reclaimed the majority on the condition that Pelosi "remains the most progressive candidate for speaker".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez backs Pelosi for speaker as long as she 'remains the most progressive candidate' |last=LeBlanc |first=Paul |publisher=[[CNN]]|date=November 22, 2018 |access-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126020703/https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |archive-date=November 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:9H1A8450 (44361385310).jpg|thumb|right|Ocasio-Cortez and Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] in December 2018]]
During the orientation for new members hosted by the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter in December 2018 about the influence of corporate interests by sponsors such as the [[American Enterprise Institute]] and the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]: "Lobbyists are here. [[Goldman Sachs]] is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?"<ref>{{cite news |first=Eliza |last=Relman |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-house-freshmen-are-protesting-orientation-harvard-2018-12 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House freshmen are protesting orientation |publisher=[[Business Insider]] |date=December 6, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110552/https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-house-freshmen-are-protesting-orientation-harvard-2018-12 |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hignett |first=Katherine |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lobbyists-congress-harvard-rashida-tlaib-1248959 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts 'Bipartisan' Congressional Orientation: 'Lobbyists are here ... Where's Labor?' |work=[[Newsweek]]|date=August 2, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216160940/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lobbyists-congress-harvard-rashida-tlaib-1248959 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Alex |last=Gangitano |url=https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/420172-ocasio-cortez-rips-presence-of-lobbyists-at/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez rips presence of lobbyists at orientation event |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=December 6, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217062744/https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/420172-ocasio-cortez-rips-presence-of-lobbyists-at |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
When Ocasio-Cortez made her first speech on the floor of Congress in January 2019, [[C-SPAN]] [[tweeted]] the video. Within 12 hours, the video of her four-minute speech set the record as C-SPAN's most-watched Twitter video of a member of the House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190118202200/http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/|archive-date=January 18, 2019|url-status=live |first=Mahita |last=Gajanan |date=January 18, 2019}}</ref>
 
=== Hearings ===
In February 2019, speaking at a Congressional hearing with a panel of representatives from [[campaign finance]] watchdog groups, Ocasio-Cortez questioned the panel about ethics regulations as they apply to both the president and members of Congress. She asserted that no regulations prevent lawmakers "from being bought off by wealthy corporations".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wyatt |first1=Tim |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers devastating dissection of US financial system and political corruption in congress speech |date=February 8, 2019 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210075120/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |archive-date=February 10, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> With more than 37.5 million views, the clip became the most-watched political video posted on Twitter.<ref name="Wolfson 2019">{{cite news |last=Wolfson |first=Sam |title=Why Ocasio-Cortez's lesson in dark money is the most-watched political video |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 14, 2019 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215002321/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref>
 
When President [[Donald Trump]]'s former lawyer [[Michael Cohen (lawyer)|Michael Cohen]] appeared before the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Oversight Committee]] in February 2019, Ocasio-Cortez asked him whether Trump had inflated property values for bank or insurance purposes and where to get more information on the subject.<ref>{{cite news |title=Michael Cohen concludes his testimony: 'I will not sit back' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-testimony/2019/02/27/089664f0-39fb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=June 15, 2019 |date=February 27, 2019 |first1=Matt |last1=Zapotosky |first2=Karoun |last2=Demirjian |first3=Rosalind S. |last3=Helderman |first4=Rachael |last4=Bade |first5=Shane |last5=Harris |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615061941/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-testimony/2019/02/27/089664f0-39fb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Cohen's reply implied that Trump may have committed [[Tax evasion|tax]] and [[bank fraud]] in his personal and business tax returns, financial statements and real-estate filings.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 27, 2019 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html |title=10 big moments from Cohen's testimony |first=James|last=Pindell |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302210354/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cbsnews.com">{{cite news |date=February 28, 2019 |first=Aimee |last=Picchi |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/ |title=Michael Cohen claims Trump lies about his wealth – here's why it matters |work=[[CBS News]]|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302061533/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The president of the [[American Constitution Society]] named Ocasio-Cortez as the committee member best at obtaining specific information from Cohen about Trump's "shady practices, along with a road map for how to find out more".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Caroline |first1=Fredrickson |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won the Cohen Hearing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html |date=February 28, 2019 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302014901/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''New York Times'' columnist [[David Brooks (commentator)|David Brooks]] praised her skill in questioning Cohen.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woodruff |first1=Judy |last2=Shields |first2=Mark |last3=Brooks |first3=David |title=Shields and Brooks on Cohen testimony, North Korea summit |type=Transcript |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |work=[[PBS NewsHour]] |date=March 1, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302120236/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> The exchange between Ocasio-Cortez and Cohen prompted an investigation by New York Attorney General [[Letitia James]], who referred to it in August 2020 when filing legal action to compel Trump's companies to comply with subpoenas about financial information, and to compel his son [[Eric Trump]] to testify.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AOC's Grilling of Michael Cohen Was What Led to NY AG's Fraud Case Against Trump Businesses, Eric Trump |website=lawandcrime.com |url=https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/aocs-grilling-of-michael-cohen-was-what-led-to-ny-ags-fraud-case-against-trump-businesses-eric-trump/ |date=August 24, 2020 |first=Colin |last=Kalmbacher |access-date=August 25, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=August 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824224056/https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/aocs-grilling-of-michael-cohen-was-what-led-to-ny-ags-fraud-case-against-trump-businesses-eric-trump/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Further developments as a result of the exchange saw James form a [[New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization|civil investigation and lawsuit]] against [[The Trump Organization]] regarding potential financial fraud, which resulted in a fine of $354 million and a ban on Trump doing business in New York for two to three years.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bustillo |first1=Ximena |date=February 16, 2024 |title=Trump ordered to pay over $355M for fraudulent business practices in New York |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1226294071/trump-fined-fraud-trial-ny |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Snodgrass |first1=Erin |title= Here's how AOC unwittingly sparked NY Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-questions-michael-cohen-2019-sparked-ny-ag-trump-lawsuit-2022-9 |access-date= February 27, 2024 |work=[[Business Insider]] |date= September 23, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Eric |last2=Feinberg |first2=Andrew |title= How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently sparked the New York attorney general's Trump lawsuit |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-donald-trump-law-suit-new-york-b2173633.html |access-date= February 27, 2024 |work=[[The Independent]] |date= September 23, 2022 }}</ref>
 
=== "The Squad" ===
{{Main|The Squad (United States Congress)}}
Ocasio-Cortez is a member of an informal group of progressive members of Congress called "[[The Squad (United States Congress)|The Squad]]", initially including [[Ilhan Omar]], [[Ayanna Pressley]], and [[Rashida Tlaib]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-ayanna-pressley-the-beauty-of-unexpected-wins-led-to-congress-and-a-historic-office/2019/01/15/61d04b5e-14fc-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html |title=For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office |last=Epstein |first=Kayla |date=January 16, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115015611/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-ayanna-pressley-the-beauty-of-unexpected-wins-led-to-congress-and-a-historic-office/2019/01/15/61d04b5e-14fc-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 14, 2019, Trump attacked the Squad (which had only four members at the time) in a tweet, saying that they should "go back and help fix" the countries they came from rather than criticize the American government.<ref name="BBC congresswomen">{{cite news |title=Trump to congresswomen of colour: Leave the US |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48982172 |access-date=December 13, 2019 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 15, 2019 |archive-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003224200/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48982172 |url-status=live }}</ref> He continued to make similar comments over the next several days, even though three of the women, including Ocasio-Cortez, were born in the United States. Ocasio-Cortez responded in a tweet that "the President's words [yesterday], telling four American Congresswomen of color 'go back to your own country' is [[Perpetual foreigner|hallmark language]] of [[white supremacy|white supremacists]]."<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1150746839790039040|user=AOC|author-link=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|title=It's important to note that the President's words yday, telling four American Congresswomen of color "go back to your own country," is hallmark language of white supremacists. Trump feels comfortable leading the GOP into outright racism, and that should concern all Americans.}}</ref> She later added, "We don't leave the things that we love, and when we love this country, what that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741771445/trump-continues-twitter-assault-on-4-minority-congresswomen |title=Lawmakers Respond To Trump's Racist Comments: We Are Here To Stay |last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=July 15, 2019 |work=[[NPR]]|access-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720023645/https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741771445/trump-continues-twitter-assault-on-4-minority-congresswomen |url-status=live }}</ref> Days later, Trump falsely asserted that Ocasio-Cortez called "our country and our people 'garbage{{'"}}; she had actually said that Americans should not be content with moderate policies that are "10% better from garbage".<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 20, 2019 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/fact-check-trump-aoc-garbage-omar-jews/index.html |title=Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans 'garbage' |first=Daniel |last=Dale |website=[[CNN]]|access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721145719/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/fact-check-trump-aoc-garbage-omar-jews/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Trump also falsely claimed that Ocasio-Cortez said "illegal immigrants are more American" than Americans who tried to keep them out; she actually said that "women and children on that border that are trying to seek refuge and opportunity" in America "are acting more American" than those who tried to keep them out.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenberg |first1=Jon |last2=Sherman |first2=Amy |title=Fact-checking Trump's misleading attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez in North Carolina |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/18/fact-checking-trumps-misleading-attacks-omar-ocasi/ |date=July 18, 2019 |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722110015/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/18/fact-checking-trumps-misleading-attacks-omar-ocasi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Squad grew in 2020, 2022, and 2024, with [[Jamaal Bowman]], [[Cori Bush]], [[Greg Casar]], [[Summer Lee]], and [[Delia Ramirez]] joining.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dougherty |first1=Sean |title=Progressive Congressional Dems known as 'The Squad |url=https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2024/05/22/progressive-congressional-dems-known-as-the-squad/73793884007/ |website=usatoday.com |publisher=USA Today |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref>
 
=== Green New Deal ===
{{Main|Green New Deal|Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal}}
[[File:116th United States Congress H. Res.0109 (1st session) - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.pdf|thumb|H. Res. 109: "Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal"; the first piece of legislation authored by Ocasio-Cortez.]]
Ocasio-Cortez submitted her first piece of legislation, the Green New Deal, to the House on February 7, 2019. She and Senator [[Ed Markey]] released a joint [[non-binding resolution]] laying out the main elements of a 10-year "economic mobilization" that "would phase out fossil fuel use and overhaul the nation's infrastructure."<ref name=":4" /> Their plan called for implementing the "[[social cost of carbon]]" that was part of the Obama administration's plans to [[climate change mitigation|address climate change]]. In the process it aimed to create jobs.<ref name=":4">{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: What's in it |first=Lydia |last=DePillis |date=February 7, 2019 |access-date=February 7, 2019 |website=[[CNN]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207182351/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html | archive-date = February 7, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> According to CNBC, an initial outline the Green New Deal called for "completely ditching fossil fuels, upgrading or replacing 'every building' in the country and 'totally overhaul[ing] transportation' to the point where 'air travel stops becoming necessary'". The outline set a goal of having the U.S. "creating '[[Carbon neutrality|net zero]]' greenhouse gases in 10 years. Why 'net zero'? The lawmakers explained: 'We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.'"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-keeps-farting-cows-for-now.html |title=Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really want to get rid of 'farting cows'? Not yet, at least |first=Kevin |last=Breuninger |date=February 7, 2019 |website=[[CNBC]]|access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119080603/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-keeps-farting-cows-for-now.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Activist groups such as [[Green Peace|Greenpeace]] and the [[Sunrise Movement]] came out in favor of the plan. No Republican lawmakers voiced support.<ref name="FoxDemsDivided GND">{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Liam |title=Dems divided on Green New Deal after Mitch McConnell ramps up pressure |date=February 14, 2019 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |publisher=[[Fox News]] |access-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223063805/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CNNPelosiGND">{{cite news |last1=Cillizza |first1=Chris |title=Nancy Pelosi just threw some serious shade at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |access-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223095116/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live |date=February 8, 2019}}</ref> The plan gained support from some Democratic senators, including [[Elizabeth Warren]], [[Bernie Sanders]] and [[Cory Booker]];<ref name="Friedman 2019" /> other Democrats, such as Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] and House speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]], dismissed the proposal (Pelosi has referred to it as "the green dream, or whatever they call it").<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-climate-change-have-kids-children-1342853 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wonders whether Americans should stop having children in the face of climate change |first=Nicole |last=Goodkind |date=February 25, 2019 |website=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015834/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-climate-change-have-kids-children-1342853 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On March 26, Senate Republicans called for an early vote on the [[Green New Deal]] without allowing discussion or expert testimony. Markey said Republicans were trying to "make a mockery" of the [[Green New Deal]] debate and called the vote a "sham". In protest, Senate Democrats voted "present" or against the bill, resulting in a 57–0 defeat on the Senate floor.<ref name="GND_vote">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/climate-change-which-democrats-oppose-green-new-deal/585802/ |title=The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |work=[[The Atlantic]] |quote=The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday, in a decisive 57–0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus. All the Republican senators opposed the measure. They were joined by four senators who caucus with the Democrats{{snd}}Senator Joe Manchin, from the coal-heavy state of West Virginia, along with Senators [[Kyrsten Sinema]] of Arizona, [[Doug Jones (politician)|Doug Jones]] of Alabama, and [[Angus King]] of Maine. |date=March 26, 2019 |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327205713/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/climate-change-which-democrats-oppose-green-new-deal/585802/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Joe |last1=Battenfield |title=Green New Fail as Dems shun GOP-forced vote on climate bill |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/26/green-new-fail-as-dems-shun-gop-forced-vote-on-climate-bill/ |access-date=March 27, 2019 |work=[[Boston Herald]] |date=March 26, 2019 |quote=an early vote on the Green New Deal on Tuesday and not a single U.S. Senator, including the measure's sponsor, Massachusetts' Ed Markey{{snd}}signed on to the overly ambitious environmental overhaul |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327073926/https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/26/green-new-fail-as-dems-shun-gop-forced-vote-on-climate-bill/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In March 2019, a group of UK activists proposed that the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] adopt a similar plan, "Labour for a Green New Deal". The group said it was inspired by the [[Sunrise Movement]] and the work Ocasio-Cortez has done in the US.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Matthew |title=Labour members launch Green New Deal inspired by US activists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/labour-members-launch-green-new-deal-inspired-by-us-activists |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=April 16, 2019 |date=March 22, 2019 |archive-date=April 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410023451/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/labour-members-launch-green-new-deal-inspired-by-us-activists |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
=== Harassment ===
{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Responds to Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)], [[C-SPAN]], 10:24, July 23, 2020}}
On July 20, 2020, Republican representatives [[Ted Yoho]] and [[Roger Williams (Texas politician)|Roger Williams]] accosted Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the Capitol, where Yoho (as overheard by a journalist) called her "disgusting" and told her, "You are out of your freaking mind" for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment were driving a spike in crime in New York City during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] amid her ongoing advocacy for cutting police budgets. Ocasio-Cortez told Yoho he was being "rude". As Ocasio-Cortez walked away from Yoho into the Capitol, Yoho called her a "fucking bitch".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lillis |first=Mike |date=July 21, 2020 |title=Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of/ |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2020 |title=Lawmaker reportedly verbally accosts Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-confrontation-sot-vpx-nr.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722023640/https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-confrontation-sot-vpx-nr.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/ |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref> Yoho [[wikisource:On the strife I injected|addressed the matter on the House floor]] and, without naming Ocasio-Cortez, apologized for the "abrupt manner of the conversation" with her, claiming that "offensive name calling, words attributed to me by the press, were never spoken to my colleagues", and concluding: "I cannot apologize for my passion".<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |date=July 22, 2020 |title=GOP congressman offers semi-apology to AOC after she says he called her 'disgusting' and 'crazy' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-offers-semi-apology-aoc-after-she-says-he-n1234585 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722164243/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-offers-semi-apology-aoc-after-she-says-he-n1234585 |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=[[NBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Broadwater |first=Luke |date=July 22, 2020 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Upbraids Republican After He Denies Vulgarly Insulting Her |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/aoc-yoho.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205743/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/aoc-yoho.html |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez [[wikisource:The incident this week|responded]] with a speech stating that the incident was emblematic of a "culture ... accepting of violence and violent language against women ... In using that language, in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community, and I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable."<ref>{{cite web |date=July 23, 2020 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces 'sexist slur by congressman' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521143 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723204209/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521143 |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=July 23, 2020 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sprunt |first=Barbara |date=July 23, 2020 |title='I Could Not Allow That To Stand': Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes Republican For Vulgar Insult |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723163707/https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=July 23, 2020 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref>
 
In November 2021, Representative [[Paul Gosar]] posted a version of the [[title sequence]] of the [[anime]] series ''[[Attack on Titan (TV series)|Attack on Titan]]'' on social media that he had edited with the faces of Ocasio-Cortez, Joe Biden, and himself superimposed on the show's characters, depicting Gosar attacking them with swords and killing Ocasio-Cortez. Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] called for law enforcement and the [[United States House Committee on Ethics|House Ethics Committee]] to investigate it as a threat.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Dartunorro |title=Twitter flags GOP lawmaker's anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez, attacking Biden as 'hateful conduct' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-tweets-altered-anime-video-depicting-him-killing-ocasio-n1283527 |website=[[NBC News]]|access-date=November 25, 2021 |date=November 9, 2021 }}</ref> Pelosi opened discussion on the House floor, saying that Gosar's actions demanded a response: "We cannot have members joking about murdering each other or threatening the president of the United States. This is both an indictment of our elected officials and an insult to the institution of the House of Representatives. It's not just about us as members of Congress. It is a danger that it represents to everyone in the country."<ref>{{cite web |title=House votes to censure GOP Rep. Gosar, remove him from committees over violent video |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-plans-vote-wednesday-censure-gop-rep-gosar/story?id=81212617 |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=November 17, 2021 |first1=Mariam |last1=Khan |first2=Libby |last2=Cathey |first3=Benjamin |last3=Siegel |first4=Trish |last4=Turner |access-date=November 25, 2021}}</ref> When Republican House members refused to condemn the video, Ocasio-Cortez responded that she believed the video was "part of a pattern that normalizes violence", adding, "I believe this is a part of a concerted strategy and I think it's very important for us to draw a strict line a strong line for material consequence". She gave a six-minute floor speech, saying, "This is not about me. This is not about Representative Gosar. This is about what we're willing to accept." The House voted to censure Gosar, mostly along party lines. The last time the House censured a lawmaker was in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at GOP over Gosar's violent video |url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rep-gosar-violent-video-house-floor-sot-nr-vpx.cnn |website=[[CNN]]|date=November 17, 2021 |access-date=November 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Deirdre |title=Rep. Gosar is censured over an anime video depicts him killing AOC |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056397130/rep-gosar-faces-censure-over-an-anime-video-of-himself-killing-aoc |website=[[NPR]]|access-date=November 25, 2021 |date=November 17, 2021 }}</ref>
 
=== January 6 Capitol attack ===
{{main|January 6 United States Capitol attack}}
In a nearly 90-minute [[Instagram Live]] video made in February 2021,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shared-her-personal-story-revealed-our-collective-trauma/|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her personal story and revealed our collective trauma|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last=Givhan|first=Robin|date=February 2, 2021|access-date=February 3, 2021|archive-date=February 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203005055/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shared-her-personal-story-revealed-our-collective-trauma/|url-status=live }}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez said that she had previously experienced [[sexual assault]], and recounted her experience of fear during the [[2021 storming of the United States Capitol]], when she was in her office (in the [[Cannon House Office Building]]).<ref>{{Cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Bill|date=February 4, 2021|title=Ask PolitiFact: Where was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Capitol riot?|work=[[The Poynter Institute]]|url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/04/ask-politifact-where-was-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-/|access-date=April 5, 2021}}</ref> She said she had hidden in her office bathroom before being startled by a Capitol Police officer who entered her office suite and shouted "Where is she?" before ordering her and her staff to evacuate to a different House Office Building. Ocasio-Cortez said the officer did not self-identify, and said she first believed the officer's voice was that of an attacker. She described sheltering in place in Representative [[Katie Porter]]'s office and preparing for what she believed would be an assault by rioters on their offices.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Peiser|first=Jaclyn|date=February 2, 2021|title=Ocasio-Cortez reveals she's a sexual assault survivor, recounts 'trauma' of Capitol riot: 'I thought everything was over'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/01/aoc-instagram-capitol-riot/|access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Fact check: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not claim that she was in the Capitol during siege, nor that rioters entered her office |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-aoc-instagram-live-video-idUSKBN2A51RK |access-date=February 24, 2021 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> She said, "I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sprunt|first=Barbara|date=February 2, 2021|title='Many Of Us Narrowly Escaped Death': Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Recounts Capitol Insurrection|work=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/13/956398483/many-of-us-narrowly-escaped-death-rep-ocasio-cortez-recounts-capitol-insurrectio|access-date=April 5, 2021}}</ref>
 
=== Supreme Court impeachment effort ===
[[File:Articles of Impeachment Against Supreme Court Justices.webm|thumb|right|Ocasio-Cortez introducing articles of impeachment for [[Samuel Alito]] and [[Clarence Thomas]] in 2024]]
On July 1, after the court ruled in ''[[Trump v. United States (2024)|Trump v. United States]]'' that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions, Ocasio-Cortez announced she would file articles of impeachment against justices. She said the court was corrupt and that Congress must defend the nation against an "authoritarian capture".<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC to File 'Articles of Impeachment' Following Supreme Court Immunity Ruling: 'Corruption Crisis Beyond Its Control' |url=https://www.mediaite.com/politics/aoc-to-file-articles-of-impeachment-following-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-corruption-crisis-beyond-its-control/ |website=mediaite.com |date=July 2024 |publisher=Mediate |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AOC wants to impeach SCOTUS justices following Trump immunity ruling |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-impeachment-articles-supreme-court-trump-immunity-ruling-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref>
 
On July 10, Ocasio-Cortez officially introduced articles of impeachment against Justices [[Clarence Thomas]] and [[Samuel Alito]], co-sponsored by seven House Democrats. The resolution accused the justices of failing to recuse themselves from cases despite personal bias and not disclosing lavish gifts they received. The resolution cited the involvement of [[Ginni Thomas]] in [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|attempts to overturn the 2020 election]] and the presence of "Stop the Steal" symbols on Alito's properties as personal bias.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC unveils articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/aoc-impeachment-supreme-court-thomas-alito |website=axios.com |publisher=Axios |access-date=10 July 2024}}</ref> In a statement, she said that corruption in the court had become a [[constitutional crisis]] that threatened democracy.<ref>{{cite news |title=AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/10/aoc-articles-of-impeachment |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=10 July 2024 |last1=Levine |first1=Sam |last2=Yang |first2=Maya }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Aster |first1=Maggie |title=Ocasio-Cortez Files Impeachment Articles Against Justices Alito and Thomas |work=The New York Times |date=July 10, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/us/politics/aoc-samuel-alito-clarence-thomas-impeach.html |access-date=10 July 2024}}</ref> Legal experts said the case would likely fail, but was still important because it drew attention to the justices' conduct.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Crystal |title=Ocasio-Cortez's Impeachment Case Will Fail — Here's Why It Still Matters |url=https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ocasio-cortezs-impeachment-case-will-fail-heres-why-it-still-matters/ |website=democracydocket.com |date=July 16, 2024 |publisher=Democracy Docket |access-date=19 July 2024}}</ref>
 
=== Other issues ===
[[File:President Joe Biden tours New Jersey and New York (03).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez looks on as President [[Joe Biden]] speaks about the administration's response to [[Hurricane Ida]] on September 7, 2021]]
Ocasio-Cortez reacted to the [[2021 Texas power crisis]] by organizing a fundraiser to provide food, water, and shelter to affected Texans. The fundraiser, which began on February 18, raised $2{{spaces}}million in its first day<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raises more than $2 million to help Texans recover from nightmare winter storm|last1=Homer|first1=Michelle |date=February 19, 2021 |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/people-nationwide-donate-more-than-2-million-to-help-texans-recover-from-nightmare-winter-storm/285-92d8fb77-a3ba-46f8-8265-fcd807a20f6a |access-date=February 20, 2021 |website=[[KHOU]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shalvey |date=February 21, 2021 |first1=Kevin| title=AOC doubled her fundraising total for Texas storm victims to $4 million, as she joined fellow lawmakers in Houston to continue relief efforts | website=[[Business Insider]] |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-texas-fundraiser-doubled-4-million-as-lawmakers-tour-houston-2021-2 | access-date=February 22, 2021}}</ref> and $5{{spaces}}million by February 21.<ref name=DeBenedetto>{{cite news |last1=DeBenedetto |first1=Paul |last2=Ernst |first2=Sara |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raises $5 Million For Texas Winter Storm Relief |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2021/02/20/391907/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-visits-houston-food-bank-after-raising-3-million-for-texas-winter-storm-relief/ |access-date=February 24, 2021 |work=[[KUHT|Houston Public Media]] |date=February 22, 2021}}</ref> The money was given to organizations such as the [[Houston Food Bank]] and the [[North Texas Food Bank]].<ref name=DeBenedetto/> Ocasio-Cortez also traveled to Houston to help volunteers with recovery.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Janowski |first=Elizabeth |date=February 19, 2021 |title=AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico trip |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-raises-2m-texas-relief-heads-houston-after-blasting-cruz-n1258389 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] }}</ref>
 
On April 15, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez and three other senators called a press conference to announce a bill that they had introduced to implement [[postal banking]] pilot programs in rural and low-income urban neighborhoods where millions of households cannot access or afford standard banking services. Ocasio-Cortez described the families she sees in her urban community who need to rely on check cashing companies that charge exorbitant interest rates due to the absence of mainstream banks. "They'll show up to a check cashing place and imagine cashing your stimulus check...and having 10 to 20% of that check taken away from you."<ref name="PBS News Hour">{{cite news |title=WATCH: Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez hold news conference on postal banking |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAJS6JeDWs |access-date=April 23, 2021 |publisher=[[PBS NewsHour]] |date=April 15, 2021}}</ref>
 
On November 5, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the [[Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]], as it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the [[Build Back Better Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Annie Grayer|title=These 6 House Democrats voted against the infrastructure bill. These 13 Republicans voted for it.|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/infrastructure-bill-house-democrats-voted-no-republicans-voted-yes/index.html|access-date=November 6, 2021|website=[[CNN]]|date=November 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/house-infrastructure-reconciliation.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/house-infrastructure-reconciliation.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited |last1=Weisman |first1=Jonathan |last2=Cochrane |first2=Emily |last3=Edmondson |first3=Catie |date=November 7, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=November 8, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
 
In September 2022, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about running for president. She said, "I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color. People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September [of 2022]. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it's not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center."<ref>{{cite news |last=Lowery |first=Wesley |authorlink=Wesley Lowery |url=https://www.gq.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-october-cover-profile |title=AOC |work=[[GQ]] |date=September 8, 2022 |accessdate=September 8, 2022 }}</ref>
 
In June 2024, following reports that [[Clarence Thomas]] accepted undisclosed gifts from conservatives, Ocasio-Cortez said the Court was "corrupted by money and extremism" and undemocratic. She and Representative [[Jamie Raskin]] led a congressional meeting about the Court,<ref>{{cite news |title=US supreme court in 'crisis of legitimacy' says AOC at House oversight round table |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jun/11/us-supreme-court-ethics-democrats-hearing |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 12, 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024 |last1=Gambino |first1=Lauren }}</ref> and explored options for holding justices accountable.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nazzaro |first1=Miranda |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin to introduce legislation to 'rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue' Supreme Court |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4717214-ocasio-cortez-raskin-to-introduce-legislation-to-rein-in-a-fundamentally-unaccountable-and-rogue-supreme-court/ |website=thehill.com |date=June 12, 2024 |publisher=The Hill |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref> On June 25, they introduced the "High Court Gift Ban Act", which would impose restrictions on the gifts given to justices.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Olmstead |first1=Edith |title=AOC and Raskin Move to Finally Rein in Alito and Thomas |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/183099/aoc-raskin-rein-alito-thomas-gifts |publisher=The New Republic |website=newrepublic.com |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref>
 
In July 2024, Ocasio-Cortez supported and co-led the "DEFIANCE Act", which would allow people to sue creators and distributors of non-consensual [[deepfake pornography]] of themselves, something that had previously been done to her.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-deepfake-porn-bill-senate-1235067061/ |website=rollingstone.com |date=July 24, 2024 |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref>
 
===Committee assignments===
*[[United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability|Committee on Oversight and Accountability]]'''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |title=Ocasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight Committee |work=[[Politico]]|date=January 22, 2019 |first=Andrew |last=Desiderio |author2=Heather Caygle|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123101811/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>''' (Vice Ranking Member, 2023–present)
**[[United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services|Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services]]
**[[United States House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs|Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs]]
*[[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|Committee on Natural Resources]]
**[[United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources|Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources]] (Ranking Member, 2023–present)
 
===Caucus memberships===
*[[Congressional Progressive Caucus]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 13, 2012|title=Committees and Caucuses|url=https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|language=en}}</ref>'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Caucus Membrs|url=https://progressives.house.gov/caucus-members|publisher=US House of Representatives|access-date=January 3, 2021|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114215407/https://progressives.house.gov/caucus-members|url-status=live}}</ref>'''
* House Pro-Choice Caucus<ref>{{cite web |url=https://houseprochoicecaucus-degette.house.gov/about-pcc/members | title=Members | newspaper=House Pro Choice Caucus | date=August 19, 2021 }}</ref>
 
==Political positions==
Ocasio-Cortez has been described as [[Progressivism|progressive]],<ref name="progressive-bundle">Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "progressive" include:
 
* {{Cite news |last=Luscombe |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Luscombe |date=2022-02-15 |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'Very real risk' US democracy won't exist in 10 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/15/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democracy |access-date=2024-03-12 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Tracy |date=2023-08-03 |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, other progressives to visit left-ruled Latin American nations |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-03/progressive-democrats-making-pilgrimage-to-latin-americas-leading-leftist-nations |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Caroline |date=2019-04-15 |title=Pelosi calls AOC's progressive wing 'like, five people' {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/14/politics/pelosi-aoc-60-minutes/index.html |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=[[CNN]]}}
* {{Cite news |last=Ross Coleman |first=Aaron |date=22 August 2020 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the future of the left |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/8/21/21395848/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-future-of-left-aoc-bernie-dsa-working-families-party |access-date=4 March 2021 |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref> [[left-wing]],<ref name="left-wing-bundle">Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "left-wing" include:
* {{Cite web |last=Seitz-Wald |first=Alex |date=2019-03-10 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes aim at the 'worship' of 'meh' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-outdraws-presidential-candidates-decries-moderates-meh-n981451 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=[[NBC News]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Zizek |first=Slavoj |date=2018-08-11 |title=The US establishment thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too radical – with an impending climate disaster, the worry is she isn't radical enough |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism-capitalism-slavoj-zizek-a8485961.html |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=[[The Independent]]}}
* {{Cite news |last=Fandos |first=Nicholas |date=2023-11-11 |title=Two Young Democratic Stars Collide Over Israel and Their Party's Future |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/nyregion/aoc-torres-israel-gaza.html |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
* {{Cite news |last=Pengelly |first=Martin |date=2023-10-06 |title=AOC slams sanctions against Venezuela and deportation flights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-us-sanctions-venezuela-deportations |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
</ref> [[left-wing populist]],<ref name="left-wing-populist-bundle">Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "left-wing populist" include:
 
* {{Cite web |last=Kirchner |first=Stephen |title=Lessons from quantitative easing in the United States: A guide for Australian policymakers |url=https://www.ussc.edu.au/lessons-from-quantitative-easing-in-the-united-states-a-guide-for-australian-policymakers |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=www.ussc.edu.au}}
* {{Cite news |last1=Bruinius |first1=Harry |last2=Feldmann |first2=Linda |title=What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory says about Democrats' future |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0628/What-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-s-victory-says-about-Democrats-future |access-date=2024-03-12 |work=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Rhodes-Purdy |first1=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cICwEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22left+wing+populists+like+alexandria%22&pg=PA48 |title=The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies |last2=Navarre |first2=Rachel |last3=Utych |first3=Stephen |date=2023-03-09 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-27941-3}}
</ref> and [[far-left]].<ref name="far-left-bundle">Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "far-left" include:
 
* {{cite web |last1=Gay |first1=Mara |date=April 23, 2024 |title=How the Squad and Like-Minded Progressives Have Changed Their Party |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/progressives-democratic-party-aoc.html |access-date=20 July 2024 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Belvedere |first=Matthew J. |date=2019-07-05 |title=Biden suggests Ocasio-Cortez's far-left politics won't play in a general election against Trump |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/biden-ocasio-cortez-far-left-politics-will-not-play-against-trump.html |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=[[CNBC]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Ehrlich |first=Jamie |date=2019-07-07 |title=AOC hits back at Pelosi for knocking far-left lawmakers who voted against border bill {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-border-funding-bill/index.html |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=[[CNN]]}}
* {{Cite news |last=[[Arnaud Leparmentier|Leparmentier]] |first=Arnaud |date=2024-06-01 |title=Politics in the Bronx borough is a world away from Manhattan and Trump's legal troubles |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/01/politics-in-the-bronx-borough-is-a-world-away-from-manhattan-and-trump-s-legal-troubles_6673408_4.html |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=[[Le Monde.fr]] |quote=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the famous face of the American far left}}
* {{Cite web |last=Lillis |first=Mike |date=2022-02-14 |title=Ocasio-Cortez laments 'sh– show' of Congress |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/594183-ocasio-cortez-laments-sh-show-of-congress/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}
* {{Cite web |last=Litvan |first=Laura |date=2019-07-13 |title=Ocasio-Cortez and Her Liberal Blessing Sought by 2020 Democrats - BNN Bloomberg |url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ocasio-cortez-and-her-liberal-blessing-sought-by-2020-democrats-1.1286685 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309103737/https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ocasio-cortez-and-her-liberal-blessing-sought-by-2020-democrats-1.1286685 |archive-date=2024-03-09 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=[[BNN Bloomberg]]}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]<ref name=vox_2018-06-27>{{Cite news |first=Jennie |last=Neufeld |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic Socialists of America member. Here's what that means. |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|date=June 27, 2018|access-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055430/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america|archive-date=December 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and embraces the [[democratic socialist]] label as part of her political identity. In an interview on NBC's ''Meet the Press'', she described democratic socialism as "part of what I am. It's not all of what I am. And I think that that's a very important distinction."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |title=Ocasio-Cortez discusses 'Democratic Socialist' label |last=Kullgren |first=Ian |date=July 1, 2018 |work=[[Politico]] |access-date=July 16, 2018 |quote=Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday she embraces the 'Democratic Socialist' label but doesn't want to force other Democrats to do the same. 'It's part of what I am; it's not all of what I am,' she said on 'Meet the Press' on NBC. 'And I think that's a very important distinction.' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716111701/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |archive-date=July 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In response to a question about democratic socialism ultimately calling for an end to [[capitalism]] during a ''[[Firing Line (TV series)|Firing Line]]'' interview on [[PBS]], she answered: "Ultimately, we are marching towards progress on this issue. I do think that we are going to see an evolution in our economic system of an unprecedented degree, and it's hard to say what direction that that takes."<ref name=hoover>{{cite interview |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |interviewer=[[Margaret Hoover]] |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |publisher=PBS |date=July 13, 2018|access-date= February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717083844/https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |archive-date=July 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Later at a conference she said "To me, capitalism is irredeemable."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Michael |last=Burke |date=March 10, 2019 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433394-ocasio-cortez-capitalism-is-irredeemable/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'Capitalism is irredeemable' |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | access-date=April 5, 2021}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez supports [[Progressivism in the United States#Progressivism in the 21st century|progressive]] ideals such as [[workplace democracy]],<ref name=":2" /> [[single-payer healthcare|single-payer Medicare for All]], [[Tuition-free college|tuition-free public college and trade school]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaufman |first1=Dan |title=Progressive Populism Can Save Us From Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 7, 2018 |quote=The recent primary upset of Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, showcased the electoral strength of her platform, which included single-payer health insurance and tuition-free college and trade school. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101041203/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> a federal [[job guarantee]],<ref name="Jeff Stein campaigning">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/ |title=Analysis {{!}} What Ocasio-Cortez wants for America after beating Joe Crowley|last=Stein|first=Jeff|date=June 27, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144323/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> the cancellation of all $1.6{{spaces}}trillion of outstanding [[student debt]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Cummings |first=William |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders unveils plan to forgive $1.6 trillion in student loan debt |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-proposal/1544864001/ |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=June 25, 2019 |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624234220/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-proposal/1544864001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> guaranteed family leave,<ref name="Suderman 2018">{{cite news |last1=Suderman |first1=Peter |title=How Republican Hypocrisy Lifts Social Democrats |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 2, 2018 |quote=Although true-blooded socialists{{snd}}Democratic Socialists, to be precise{{snd}}remain a relatively small niche within the Democratic Party, they are having a visible impact on the party's agenda, with nearly every likely 2020 presidential contender embracing Medicare for all. Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign galvanized progressive support for the idea of Democratic Socialism, and this year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has embraced not only the label but also a blue-sky vision of American socialism{{snd}}free public college, a jobs guarantee, guaranteed family leave and more{{snd}}unbound by moderate liberal worries about government overreach or overspending. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121121909/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> abolishing [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |title=An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 27, 2018 |quote=She drew support for her progressive platform that included abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Medicare for all and a federal jobs guarantee. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119144352/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> ending the [[Incarceration in the United States#Privatization|privatization of prisons]], enacting [[Gun politics in the United States|gun-control policies]],<ref name="Vox - top house democrat">{{Cite news |first=Kay |last=Steiger |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |title=A top House Democrat just lost his primary – to a socialist |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627023114/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> and energy policy relying on 100% renewables.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=January 8, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist groups map out next steps in Green New Deal fight |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116100457/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html |archive-date=January 16, 2019 |quote=The idea of a Green New Deal has, in just a few months, become a central piece of Ocasio-Cortez's agenda and attracted the attention of ambitious national Democrats.}}</ref> She told [[Anderson Cooper]] that she favors policies that "most closely resemble what we see in the UK, in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Rookie Congresswoman Challenging the Democratic Establishment |author-link=Anderson Cooper |first=Anderson |last=Cooper |date=January 6, 2019 |work=CBS 60 Minutes|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112183040/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/|archive-date=January 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Economic policy===
Ocasio-Cortez has rejected [[state socialism]], calling it "undemocratic" and "easily corrupted", but has expressed support for worker control of the [[means of production]].<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC Asks Workers to Take Over Billionaires' Means of Production |date=March 22, 2022 |url=https://elamerican.com/ocasio-cortez-means-of-production/ |publisher=El Americano |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> She has also said that market economies are not incompatible with democratic socialism as long as workers control companies, citing [[worker cooperative]]s as a model.<ref>{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Socialism During Instagram Live Stream: 'It Does Not Mean Government Owns Everything' |date=June 18, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-instagram-live-explains-socialism-aoc-1444534 |publisher=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez supports raising the marginal tax rate on top income earners to fund the implementation of her policy goals.<ref name=deficit>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the theory that deficit spending is good for the economy should 'absolutely' be part of the conversation |date=January 7, 2019 |first=Eliza |last=Relman |work=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=January 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174219/https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was among the 46 House Democrats who voted against final passage of the [[Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4029522-republicans-and-democrats-who-bucked-party-leaders-by-voting-no/|title=Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting no|first=Jared|last=Gans|date=May 31, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2023|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez has called for reducing defense spending.<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Jeff |last1=Stein |first2=Aaron |last2=Gregg |date=April 18, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/18/us-military-spending-set-increase-fifth-consecutive-year-nearing-levels-during-height-iraq-war/ |title=U.S. military spending set to increase for fifth consecutive year, nearing levels during height of Iraq war |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=August 21, 2023 }}</ref> In December 2022, she was the only House Democrat to vote against an omnibus spending package because it increased funding for defense and federal agencies that oversee immigration.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Mychael |last=Schnell |date=December 23, 2022 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3786827-ocasio-cortez-only-democrat-to-vote-no-on-spending-package/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez only Democrat to vote 'no' on spending package |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=August 21, 2023 }}</ref>
 
In late 2020, Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib proposed a public banking bill to encourage creation of state and local public banks by giving them access to facilities from the [[Federal Reserve]] and setting national guidelines on public banking.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stewart|first=Emily|date=October 30, 2020|title=Exclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer, greener financial system – public banking|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21541113/rashida-tlaib-aoc-public-banking-act|url-status=live|access-date=November 2, 2020|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101171658/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21541113/rashida-tlaib-aoc-public-banking-act}}</ref> In April 2021, Ocasio-Cortez announced a bill that she and three senators had introduced to implement postal banking pilot programs in rural and low-income urban neighborhoods where millions of households cannot access or afford standard banking services.<ref name="PBS News Hour"/>
 
Ocasio-Cortez has been a vocal supporter of [[Human rights in the United States#Labor rights|labor rights]], including a $15 per hour [[Minimum wage in the United States|federal minimum wage]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Henney|first=Megan|date=March 3, 2021|title=AOC slams debate over $15 minimum wage as 'utterly embarrassing'|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/aoc-slams-debate-over-15-minimum-wage-as-utterly-embarrassing|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=Fox Business|language=en-US}}</ref> In May 2019, she returned to bartending at the Queensboro Restaurant in [[Jackson Heights, Queens]], to promote the [[Raise the Wage Act]], which would increase the minimum hourly wage for restaurant servers and other tipped workers from $2.13 to $15. Speaking to restaurant workers, customers and reporters, she criticized an exemption in U.S. minimum wage law for restaurants and the service sector that allows them to be paid less than $7.25 per hour, saying, "Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Trotta |first1=Daniel |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wages |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1T12R4 |work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=June 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bryant |first1=Miranda |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez: $2.13 minimum wage for tipped workers is 'indentured servitude' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bar-tipped-minimum-wage-queens-new-york |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=Queens, New York |access-date=June 6, 2021}}</ref> On January 20, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez skipped the [[inauguration of Joe Biden]] in order to join the [[2021 Hunts Point Produce Market strike]] in the Bronx.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sisak |first=Michael R. |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Deal ends weeklong strike at largest US produce market |url=https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new-york-city-health-coronavirus-pandemic-strikes-81bf6397147b0e8d1608798b6543c55c |access-date=January 23, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
 
[[File:Sanders rally Council Bluffs IMG 4023 (49036403791).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez and [[Bernie Sanders]] in 2019]]
In September 2019, Ocasio-Cortez introduced an anti-poverty policy proposal (packaged in a bundle called "A Just Society") that would take into account the cost of [[childcare]], [[Health care in the United States|health care]], and "new necessities" like [[Internet access]] when measuring poverty. The proposal would cap annual rent increases and ensure access to social welfare programs for people with [[conviction]]s and undocumented immigrants.<ref>{{cite news |last=Inskeep |first=Steve |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763793482/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-america-to-talk-about-poverty |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants America To Talk About Poverty |work=[[NPR]] |date=September 25, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925134522/https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763793482/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-america-to-talk-about-poverty |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the U.S. census, about 40{{spaces}}million Americans live in poverty.
 
Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a [[Marginal tax rate|marginal tax]] as high as 70% on income above $10{{spaces}}million to pay for the [[Green New Deal]]. According to tax experts contacted by ''[[The Washington Post]]'', this tax would bring in extra revenue of $720{{spaces}}billion per decade.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |title=Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106011553/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |archive-date=January 6, 2019 |first=Matthew |last=Choi |work=[[Politico]] |date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=April 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here's how much money that could raise. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105230343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |quote=With the help of tax experts, we produced some back-of-the-envelope estimates. |first=Jeff |last=Stein |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 5, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> But an analysis by the think tank [[Tax Foundation]] estimated that, after accounting for macroeconomic effects, the proposal would increase tax revenue by $189.1 billion over ten years if it is applied only to ordinary income, or decrease tax revenue by 53.1 billion if it is applied to all forms of income, including capital gains.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425202-right-leaning-group-70-percent-tax-rate-might-not-raise-much-revenue/ |title=Right-leaning group: 70 percent tax suggested by Ocasio-Cortez might have little effect on revenue |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=January 14, 2019 |access-date=August 26, 2023}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez has opposed and voted against the [[PAYGO|pay-as-you-go]] rule supported by Democratic leaders, which requires deficit-neutral fiscal policy, with all new expenditures balanced by tax increases or spending cuts. She and Representative [[Ro Khanna]] have condemned the rule for hamstringing new or expanded progressive policies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Slattery |first=Denis |date=January 2, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez to vote against Pelosi rules package on first day in Congress over 'paygo' |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153320/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |archive-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McPherson |first=Lindsey |date=January 3, 2019 |title=House adopts rules package with few Democratic defections over PAYGO provision |work=Roll Call |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210205/https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |archive-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref> Drawing a parallel with the [[Great Depression]], she has argued that the Green New Deal needs deficit spending like the original [[New Deal]].<ref name=InTheseTimes />
 
Ocasio-Cortez opposed a planned deal by New York City to give [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]] $3 billion in state and city [[Subsidy|subsidies]] and [[tax break]]s to build a secondary headquarters ([[Amazon HQ2]]) that was expected to bring in $27 billion in tax revenue for the city and state, in an area near her congressional district, saying that the city should instead itself invest $3 billion in the district.<ref name="NBCNewsVideo">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-politicians-odds-over-amazon-s-decision-pull-out-n971741 |title=NY politicians at odds over Amazon's decision to pull out of Queens |last=Fieldstadt |first=Elisha |work=[[NBC News]] |quote="If we're willing to give away $3{{spaces}}billion for this deal, we could invest those $3{{spaces}}billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to. |date=February 14, 2019 |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216184624/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-politicians-odds-over-amazon-s-decision-pull-out-n971741 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Democrats criticize Amazon HQ2 |last=Pramuk |first=Jacob |date=November 13, 2018 |publisher=[[CNBC]]|access-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228155020/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html|archive-date=February 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/17/amazon-hq-2-politicians-feud-over-who-blame-after-firm-ditches-ny/2900101002/|title=Politicians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New York|website=[[USA Today]]|last=Davidson|first=Paul|date=February 17, 2019}}</ref> Some commentators criticized her remarks on the grounds that she did not understand tax breaks are discounts on money paid to, not by, the government, that "New York does not have $3 billion in cash" it would "give" to Amazon, and that between 25,000 and 40,000 new jobs, in addition to the high-paying tech jobs Amazon would have created, disappeared when Amazon left. Conservative columnist [[Marc Thiessen]] argued that "her economic illiteracy is dangerous" because "by helping to drive Amazon away, she did not save New York $3 billion; she cost New York $27 billion."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Marc A. |last=Thiessen |date=February 21, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-an-economic-illiterate--and-thats-a-danger-to-america/2019/02/21/ee8c58d8-35f1-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |title=Opinion &#124; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an economic illiterate – and that's a danger to America |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-date=July 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705031027/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-an-economic-illiterate--and-thats-a-danger-to-america/2019/02/21/ee8c58d8-35f1-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
===Environment===
{{Further|Environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration|Climate policy of the United States}}
[[File:GreenNewDeal Presser 020719 (26 of 85) (46105848855).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez speaks on a Green New Deal in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019.]]
Ocasio-Cortez has called for "more environmental hardliners in Congress",<ref name=InTheseTimes>{{Cite news |issn=0160-5992 |last=Aronoff |first=Kate |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Wants to Abolish ICE and Upend the Democratic Party |work=In These Times |access-date=January 27, 2019 |date=June 25, 2018 |url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227151631/http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-date = December 27, 2018| url-status=live}}</ref> calling [[climate change]] "the single biggest national security threat for the United States and the single biggest threat to worldwide industrialized civilization".<ref name=CampaignWeb>{{cite web |last=Ocasio-Cortez |first=Alexandria |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform: Mobilizing Against Climate Change |publisher=Ocasio2018.com (campaign website) |access-date=January 27, 2019 |year=2018 |url=https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116020452/https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-date = January 16, 2019| url-status = dead}}</ref> Referring to a recent [[United Nations]] [[Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C|report]] indicating that the effects of climate change could become irreversible unless carbon emissions are reined in within the next 12 years, she has argued that global warming must be addressed immediately to avert human extinction.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 22, 2019 |last1=John |first1=Bowden |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'World will end in 12 years' if climate change not addressed |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address/ |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305034141/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address |archive-date=March 5, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="USATodayClimateEnd12Years">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ |title='The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says |last1=Cummings |first1=William |date=January 22, 2019 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207104335/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/|archive-date=February 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Nation12years">{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, 'World Is Going to End in 12 Years,' Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change Report |last1=Zhao |first1=Christina |date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224115757/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873|archive-date=February 24, 2019|url-status=live |website=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez's environmental plan, the [[Green New Deal]], advocates for the U.S. to transition to an electrical grid running on [[100% renewable energy]]<ref name="Friedman 2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html |title=The Green New Deal Rises Again |last1=Friedman |first1=Thomas |date=January 8, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 20, 2019 |quote=The Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez has laid out aspires to power the U.S. economy with 100 percent renewable energy within 12 years and calls for "a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one", "basic income programs" and "universal health care", financed, at least in part, by higher taxes on the wealthy.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119220237/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> and to end the use of [[fossil fuel]]s within ten years. The changes, estimated to cost roughly $2.5{{spaces}}trillion per year, would be financed in part by higher taxes on the wealthy.<ref name="ForbesGNDcost">{{cite news |last1=Ezrati |first1=Milton |title=The Green New Deal And The Cost Of Virtue |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/ |date=February 19, 2019 |website=[[Forbes]]|access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226204348/https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/#782b6cd03dec |archive-date=February 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 24, 2018 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal/ |title=Five things to know about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |last1=Cama |first1=Timothy |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126140623/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal|archive-date=November 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sunrisemovement.org/green-new-deal |title=Sunrise Movement Green New Deal |publisher=Sunrise Movement |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228130857/https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/|archive-date=December 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She has said she has an "open mind" about [[nuclear power]]'s role in the Green New Deal,<ref>{{Cite web |first=Jacqueline |last=Toth |title=Ocasio-Cortez: Green New Deal 'Leaves the Door Open' on Nuclear |url=https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-leaves-door-open-nuclear/ |date=May 6, 2019 |website=Morning Consult |language=en-US |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509070214/https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-leaves-door-open-nuclear/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but has been criticized for ignoring it in her proposals for the deal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/05/15/dear-bernie-aoc-yes-theres-middle-ground-nuclear-energy-14029|title=Dear Bernie & AOC, Yes, There's A Middle Ground: Nuclear Energy|website=acsh.org|first=Alex|last=Berezov|date=May 15, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/03/21/green-new-deal-is-dead-without-nuclear-power/|title=Any Green New Deal Is Dead Without Nuclear Power|work=[[Forbes]]|first=James|last=Conca|date=March 21, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2021}}</ref>
 
In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez, supported by Bowman and Sanders, introduced the "Green New Deal for Public Housing", a plan to fund the [[New York City Housing Authority]] (NYCHA) and help it transition to clean energy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reps. AOC, Bowman introduce Green New Deal for Public Housing |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/03/21/reps--aoc--bowman-introduce-green-new-deal-for-public-housing |website=ny1.com |publisher=Spectrum News New York 1 |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref>
 
===Foreign policy===
[[File:10.02.2023 - Audiência com Deputados do Partido Democrata (52680313097).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez with Brazilian President [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] in February 2023]]
[[File:AlbertoFernándezAOC.jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez with Argentine President [[Alberto Fernández]] in September 2023]]
 
====Hong Kong====
{{See also|Blitzchung controversy|Overseas censorship of Chinese issues|Daryl Morey#Twitter comments on Hong Kong}}
Ocasio-Cortez criticized the American companies [[Activision Blizzard]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] for censoring pro-democracy [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests|protesters in Hong Kong]].<ref>{{cite news |title=AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship |first=Colin |last=Lecher |work=[[The Verge]] |date=October 18, 2019 |access-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023627/https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship |url-status=live }}</ref> She co-signed a letter to Activision Blizzard CEO [[Bobby Kotick]] that read, "As China amplifies its campaign of intimidation, you and your company must decide whether to look beyond the bottom line and promote American values—like freedom of speech and thought—or to give in to Beijing's demands in order to preserve market access."<ref>{{cite news |title=Lawmakers condemn Apple, Activision Blizzard over censorship of Hong Kong protester |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/466507-bipartisan-lawmakers-condemn-apple-activision-blizzard-over-censorship-of/ |first=Tal |last=Axelrod |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=October 18, 2020 |access-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001133916/https://thehill.com/policy/technology/466507-bipartisan-lawmakers-condemn-apple-activision-blizzard-over-censorship-of |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
A bipartisan letter by Ocasio-Cortez and seven other lawmakers fiercely criticized the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]'s handling of a controversy involving a tweet by [[Houston Rockets]] general manager [[Daryl Morey]] supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The lawmakers wrote that the NBA's response not only "sold out an American citizen" but also "reinforces the [[Chinese Communist Party]] view that those who point to Chinese repression in Hong Kong are as best stating opinions, not facts", as well as being "a betrayal of fundamental American values".<ref name="theh_Ocas">{{Cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz join colleagues blasting NBA for 'outrageous' response to China |last=Lane |first=Sylvan |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=October 9, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/465111-lawmakers-blast-nba-for-outrageous-response-to-chinese-boycott/ |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202238/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/465111-lawmakers-blast-nba-for-outrageous-response-to-chinese-boycott |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="vani_TheN">{{Cite web |title=The NBA Isn't the Only Company Tripping Over Itself to Appease China |last=Lutz |first=Eric |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=October 10, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/nba-isnt-the-only-company-appease-china-google-apple-bilzzard |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202237/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/nba-isnt-the-only-company-appease-china-google-apple-bilzzard |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="gall_Gall">{{Cite web |title=Gallagher and Sasse Lead Call for NBA to Stand Against CCP Censorship and Bullying |publisher=[[United States House of Representatives]] |date=October 9, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-and-sasse-lead-call-nba-stand-against-ccp-censorship-and-bullying |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202235/https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-and-sasse-lead-call-nba-stand-against-ccp-censorship-and-bullying |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
====Middle East====
Ocasio-Cortez voted to withdraw U.S. military aid for [[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen|Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-house-vote-resolution-37-ro-khanna-paul-ryan/ |title=The House Vote to End Support for the War on Yemen Shows How Much Has Changed |last=Carden |first=James |date=February 14, 2019 |work=The Nation |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622105254/https://www.thenation.com/article/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-house-vote-resolution-37-ro-khanna-paul-ryan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, Ocasio-Cortez was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President [[Joe Biden]] to remove U.S. troops from [[Syria]] within 180 days.<ref>{{cite web |title=H.Con.Res. 21: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of … -- House Vote #136 -- Mar 8, 2023 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2023/h136}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 8, 2023 |title=House Votes Down Bill Directing Removal of Troops From Syria |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-03-08/house-votes-down-bill-directing-removal-of-troops-from-syria |access-date=April 4, 2023 |publisher=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |language=en-us |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Trump's administration for escalating [[Iran–United States relations#2019–2020 escalation in tensions|tensions with Iran]], saying that it would bring the country into a "military conflict that is completely irresponsible".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tells-white-house-to-put-down-its-saber-and-call-tehran |title=Ocasio-Cortez tells White House to 'put down its saber,' and negotiate with Iran |last=DeMarche |first=Edmund |date=June 21, 2019 |work=[[Fox News]] |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=August 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807151905/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tells-white-house-to-put-down-its-saber-and-call-tehran |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, she supported the [[Mahsa Amini protests]], saying, "right to choose belongs to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care".<ref>{{cite web |title=Progressives such as AOC think every conflict is about them |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2876575/progressives-such-as-aoc-think-every-conflict-is-about-them/ |website=washingtonexaminer.com |date=September 26, 2022 |publisher=Washington Examiner |access-date=24 July 2024}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez is a proponent of a [[two-state solution]] in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref name="hoover" /> She has criticized Israel on multiple occasions. In May 2018, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the [[Israel Defense Forces]]' use of deadly force against Palestinians participating in the [[2018 Gaza border protests]], calling it a "massacre" in a tweet.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=996009689312825344|user=AOC|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|date=May 14, 2018|title=This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can't be silent about this anymore.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Allison |last=Kaplan Sommer |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292 |title=Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627103125/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In a July 2018 interview, she said called Israel's presence in the [[West Bank]] an "[[Israeli occupation of the West Bank|occupation of Palestine]]".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media |title="I Think A Lot of Them Can't Hide Their Misogyny": How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez De-Fanged The Fox News Haters |last=Nguyen |first=Tina |date=November 26, 2018 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Dunst">{{cite news |date=July 17, 2018 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez criticizes 'occupation of Palestine', but admits she's no expert |last=Dunst |first=Charles |newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119235924/https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |archive-date=November 19, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez voted against a House resolution introduced by Representative [[Brad Schneider]] condemning the Global [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions]] Movement targeting Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/428179/congress-bds-aoc-tlaib-omar/ |date=July 24, 2019 |title=Here Are The 17 Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Condemning BDS |last=Pink |first=Aiden |website=[[The Forward]] |access-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725163710/https://forward.com/fast-forward/428179/congress-bds-aoc-tlaib-omar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The resolution passed 398–17.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246 |title=H.Res.246 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. |last=Schneider |first=Bradley Scott |date=July 23, 2019 |website=www.congress.gov |access-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724073952/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez warned that Israel's planned [[proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank|annexation]] of [[Palestinian territories]] in the occupied West Bank in 2020 "would lay the groundwork for [[Israeli apartheid|Israel becoming an apartheid state]]".<ref name="cortez-israel" /> She wrote to U.S. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] that she would work to "pursue legislation that conditions the $3.8{{spaces}}billion in U.S. military funding to Israel to ensure that U.S. taxpayers are not supporting annexation in any way".<ref name="cortez-israel">{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez raises AIPAC ire over effort to tie Israel aid to annexation |first=Holly |last=Otterbeing |access-date=August 20, 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-raises-aipac-ire-over-effort-to-tie-israel-aid-to-annexation-1296133 |work=[[Politico]] |date=June 30, 2020 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725120027/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-raises-aipac-ire-over-effort-to-tie-israel-aid-to-annexation-1296133 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee|AIPAC]] condemned the letter, saying it threatened the U.S.-Israel relationship.<ref>{{cite news |title=US Democrats, rights groups warn against West Bank annexation |first=William |last=Roberts |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/democrats-rights-groups-warn-west-bank-annexation-200630211014602.html |work=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] |date=July 1, 2020 |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727223022/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/democrats-rights-groups-warn-west-bank-annexation-200630211014602.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In May 2021, Ocasio-Cortez issued a statement condemning Israel's [[Sheikh Jarrah property dispute|evictions of Palestinian families]] from their homes in Israeli-occupied [[East Jerusalem]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Magid|first=Jacob|date=May 9, 2021|title=Sanders, Warren, Ocasio-Cortez slam Israel over pending Sheikh Jarrah evictions|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-warren-ocasio-cortez-slam-israel-over-pending-sheikh-jarrah-evictions/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509211810/https://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-warren-ocasio-cortez-slam-israel-over-pending-sheikh-jarrah-evictions/|archive-date=May 9, 2021}}</ref> She criticized President Biden for saying Israel "has a right to defend itself", arguing that "blanket statements like these [with] little context or acknowledgement of what precipitated [[2021 Israel–Palestine crisis|this cycle of violence]]—namely, the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al Aqsa—dehumanize Palestinians [and] imply the US will look the other way at human rights violations."<ref>{{cite news |title='It's wrong': AOC hits out at Biden's Israel statement as Democrats demand end to Palestinian displacement |last1=Woodward|first1=Alex|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-palestine-israel-antony-blinken-b1846673.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513000351/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-palestine-israel-antony-blinken-b1846673.html |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |work=[[The Independent]] |date=May 13, 2021}}</ref> On September 23, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez abruptly changed her vote from "no" to "present" on a bill providing $1 billion for Israel's [[Iron Dome]] missile defense system, citing the "hateful targeting" she had received surrounding the bill. She apologized for her vote after receiving criticism on social media from some supporters of Israel and of Palestine but maintained her opposition to the bill due to Israel's "persistent human rights abuses against the Palestinian people".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Broadwater |first1=Luke |title=Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for her 'present' vote on Iron Dome funding. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 25, 2021 |date=September 24, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
 
On July 18, 2023, Ocasio-Cortez and eight other [[Progressivism in the United States#In the 21st century|progressive]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] ([[Jamaal Bowman]], [[Cori Bush]], [[Andre Carson]], [[Summer Lee]], [[Ilhan Omar]], [[Ayanna Pressley]], [[Delia Ramirez]], and [[Rashida Tlaib]]), voted against a [[United States Congress|congressional]] [[non-binding resolution]] proposed by [[August Pfluger]] that "the State of Israel is not a [[Zionism as settler colonialism#Historiography|racist]] or apartheid state", that Congress rejects "all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia", and that "the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel". She argued that it was wrong to pair "accusations of antisemitism with real concerns around the human rights crisis in the region" and that combining a "vote on antisemitism and discussion of apartheid and...two-tier legal systems is very cynical".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wong|first1=Scott|last2=Kaplan|first2=Rebecca|last3=Stewart|first3=Kyle|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-pass-resolution-backing-israel-jayapal-racist-state-rcna94897|title=House overwhelmingly passes resolution backing Israel after Rep. Jayapal calls it a 'racist state'|website=[[NBC News]]|date=July 18, 2023|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719000920/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-pass-resolution-backing-israel-jayapal-racist-state-rcna94897|archive-date=July 19, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In 2023, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the [[7 October attacks|October 7 attacks]], calling them "horrifying attacks against innocent civilians".<ref>{{cite news |title=AOC decries 'bigotry and callousness' of pro-Palestinian rally in New York |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/10/aoc-palestinian-rally-new-york |work=The Guardian|first=Martin|last=Pengelly |date=10 October 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref> On October 12, she criticized Israel's plans to [[2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip|block electricity, water and fuel from Gaza]], calling it a "collective punishment and a violation of international law."<ref>{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez Slams Israel For Cutting Gaza's Power And Water Supply |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-israel-gaza-power-supply_n_65283160e4b03ea0c0045b68 |work=HuffPost|first=Lydia|last=O'Connor |date=October 12, 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref> On October 16, she signed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in [[Israel–Hamas war|the war]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Progressive Democrats bring resolution calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/house-democrats-urge-biden-ceasefire-israel-hamas |work=The Guardian|first1=Joan E|last1=Greve|first2=Lauren|last2=Gambino |date=17 October 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref> On March 22, 2024, she characterized Israel's assault on Gaza and the [[Gaza Strip famine]] as [[Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza|genocide]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |title=Ocasio-Cortez, in House Speech, Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/nyregion/aoc-genocide.html |access-date=9 April 2024 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=22 March 2024}}</ref> Asked what the Biden administration could have done better in the situation, Ocasio-Cortez said it could have enforced its red line on the [[Rafah offensive]], investigated its weapons shipments to Israel, provided heavier sanctions in response to the occupation of the West Bank, and "rein in" Netanyahu.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC on the real story behind that Marjorie Taylor Greene exchange |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2s_qKen0A |website=YouTube.com | date=May 22, 2024 |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref> In a separate statement, she called for halting weapons transfers to Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC calls Israel's war on Gaza an 'unfolding genocide', demands Biden halts arms sales |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/aoc-calls-israels-war-gaza-unfolding-genocide |website=newarab.com |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref> In January 2024, the U.S. and other countries cut funding to the [[UNRWA|United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East]] (UNRWA) over [[UNRWA and Israel#2024 allegations|intelligence reports that certain staff members participated in the Hamas attacks]].<ref name="CBS">{{cite web |title=Israeli intelligence docs detail alleged UNRWA staff links to Hamas, including 12 accused in Oct. 7 attack |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-unrwa-un-staff-intelligence-dossier-oct-7-terror-attack/ |website=[[CBS News]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] (AP) and [[CBS]] |access-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129200149/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-unrwa-un-staff-intelligence-dossier-oct-7-terror-attack/ |archive-date=29 January 2024 |location=[[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] |format=[[Article (publishing)|News article]] |date=29 January 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> On January 29, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged the reports, but said that cutting funding to UNRWA was "unacceptable" and that the U.S. "should restore aid immediately" because of the agency's humanitarian work.<ref name="Jan29">{{cite web |last1=Ocasio-Cortez |first1=Alexandria |title=Cutting off support to @UNRWA - the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+ Gazans - is unacceptable. |url=https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1751962808378421696 |website=[[Twitter|𝕏]] (Formerly [[Twitter]]) |publisher=@AOC |access-date=29 January 2024 |format=Post on [[Twitter|𝕏]] |date=29 January 2024 |quote=Cutting off support to @UNRWA - the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+ Gazans - is unacceptable. Among an organization of 13,000 UN aid workers, risking the starvation of millions over grave allegations of 12 is indefensible. The US should restore aid immediately.}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez boycotted [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s 2024 [[2024 visit by Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States|speech to Congress]], calling him a war criminal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Capitol Hill's Netanyahu speech no-shows |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2024/07/23/breaking-down-the-netanyahu-speech-no-shows-00170731 |website=politico.com |publisher=Politico |access-date=24 July 2024}}</ref>
 
===Governance===
====Judiciary====
After [[Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination|the contentious confirmation]] of [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Justice [[Amy Coney Barrett]], Ocasio-Cortez urged Democratic presidential nominee [[Joe Biden]] to [[Supreme Court of the United States#Size of the court|expand the court]] if he won and their party achieved a [[United States Senate|Senate]] majority.<ref>{{Cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706085440/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-urges-biden-pack-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-b1374277.html|archive-date=July 6, 2022|title=AOC urges Biden to pack supreme court, says GOP doesn't think Democrats have the 'stones to play hardball'|date=October 27, 2022|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-urges-biden-pack-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-b1374277.html|website=[[The Independent]]|last=Mathers|first=Matt}}</ref> In April 2021, she supported a bill to increase the Court's size.<ref>{{Cite news|website=[[Fox News]]|title=AOC backs court-packing push: 'We should be expanding the court'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-backs-court-packing-push|last1=Schultz|first1=Marisa|last2=Phares|first2=Kelly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422140544/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-backs-court-packing-push|archive-date=April 22, 2021}}</ref> She again called for expansion in September 2021 after the Court voted not to grant an emergency stay of the [[Texas Heartbeat Bill]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-leads-calls-expand-supreme-court-texas-abortion-law-1625336|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Leads Calls To Expand Supreme Court After Texas Abortion Law|date=September 2, 2021|last=Roche|first=Darragh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511052718/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-leads-calls-expand-supreme-court-texas-abortion-law-1625336|archive-date=May 11, 2022|website=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref>
 
In March 2022, Ocasio-Cortez called on Justice [[Clarence Thomas]] to resign over [[Ginni Thomas#Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack|his wife's texts]] urging President Trump's [[White House chief of staff|chief of staff]] to [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|overturn the 2020 presidential election]], raising a possible [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] effort if he did not.<ref>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/aoc-clarence-thomas-resign-supreme-court/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331013329/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/aoc-clarence-thomas-resign-supreme-court/|archive-date=March 31, 2022|date=March 29, 2022|title=Ocasio-Cortez calls on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign|last=Wang|first=Amy B}}</ref> After [[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization|the Supreme Court overturned ''Roe v. Wade'']] in June 2022, Ocasio-Cortez called for the impeachment of Justices [[Neil Gorsuch]] and [[Brett Kavanaugh]]. She alleged that the two had [[perjury|lied under oath]] about their views on ''Roe'' during their [[Nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States#Confirmation|confirmation hearings]].<ref>{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/aoc-roe-abortion-scotus.html|title=Ocasio-Cortez wants two justices impeached for 'lying under oath.'|last=Shanahan|first=Ed|date=June 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707051834/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/aoc-roe-abortion-scotus.html|archive-date=July 7, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
 
In June 2022, after the Supreme Court made several consequential rulings and granted ''[[certiorari]]'' to ''[[Moore v. Harper]]'', which has a potential impact on future elections, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the U.S. was "witnessing a judicial coup in progress".<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1542567302029348865|user=AOC|date=June 30, 2022|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|title=We are witnessing a judicial coup in process. If the President and Congress do not restrain the Court now, the Court is signaling they will come for the Presidential election next. All our leaders - regardless of party - must recognize this Constitutional crisis for what it is.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/aoc-says-the-us-is-witnessing-a-judicial-coup_partner/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702201520/https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/aoc-says-the-us-is-witnessing-a-judicial-coup_partner/|archive-date=July 2, 2022|title=AOC says the U.S. is witnessing a "judicial coup"|date=July 1, 2022|last=Wilkins|first=Brett|website=[[Salon.com|Salon]]}}</ref> The next month, she claimed the Court had "gone rogue" and that impeachment, expansion, introduction of ethics rules and [[recusal]] requirements should be considered. She added that Thomas should certainly be impeached.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3557191-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-has-gone-rogue/|date=July 13, 2022|title=Ocasio-Cortez: Supreme Court has 'gone rogue'|last=Vakil|first=Caroline|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713141058/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3557191-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-has-gone-rogue/|archive-date=July 13, 2022|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref> Two days later, she led House progressives calling on the Democratic leadership in Congress to strip the Court of its jurisdiction "in the areas of abortion, marriage equality, non-procreative intimacy, and contraception". They pointed to Thomas's concurring opinion in ''Dobbs'', which suggested revisiting cases that established a constitutional right to [[contraception]], [[same-sex marriage]], and gay sex.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3561533-ocasio-cortez-progressives-call-on-schumer-pelosi-to-strip-scotus-of-abortion-jurisdiction/|title=Ocasio-Cortez, progressives call on Schumer, Pelosi to strip SCOTUS of abortion jurisdiction|last=Vakil|first=Caroline|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=July 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715201412/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3561533-ocasio-cortez-progressives-call-on-schumer-pelosi-to-strip-scotus-of-abortion-jurisdiction/|archive-date=July 15, 2022}}</ref>
 
====Trump impeachments====
On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|first impeachment of President Trump]], citing Trump's alleged violations of the [[Title of Nobility Clause|Emoluments Clause]] and saying that "we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is above that law."<ref>{{cite news |agency=Tribune News Service |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/national-news/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-of-midterm-elections-and-could-spell-trouble-for-trump/ |title=Primaries upend political landscape ahead of midterm elections and could spell trouble for Trump |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[San Francisco Examiner]]|access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=[[Tribune News Service]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015406/http://www.sfexaminer.com/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-midterm-elections-spell-trouble-trump/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she supports impeaching Trump |last=Nelson |first=Louis |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[Politico]]|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628184726/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez supported impeaching Trump a second time for his [[attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election]]. On January 3, 2021, she said that the [[Trump–Raffensperger phone call]] consituted an impeachable offense, and called it a "despicable abuse of power".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macros |first1=Christina |title=thehill.com |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532455-ocasio-cortez-calls-trumps-georgia-call-an-impeachable-offense/ |website=thehill.com |date=January 3, 2021 |publisher=The Hill |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref> After January 6, she and many other Democrats co-sponsored an article of impeachment against Trump. Ocasio-Cortez said that Trump should be permanently barred from office and impeached.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Connolly |first1=Griffin |title=AOC: Trump should be impeached and barred from ever running for office again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/aoc-senate-trump-impeachment-removal-b1785148.html |website=independent.co.uk |date=January 10, 2021 |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref>
 
====Puerto Rico====
Ocasio-Cortez has called for "solidarity with [[Puerto Rico]]". She has advocated for granting Puerto Ricans further civil rights, regardless of Puerto Rico's legal classification. She advocates for voting rights and disaster relief. Ocasio-Cortez was critical of [[FEMA]]'s response to [[Hurricane Maria]] and the federal government's unwillingness to address [[political status of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico's political status]].<ref name="Puerto Rico Report">{{Cite news |url=https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/ |title=Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Statehood? |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=Puerto Rico Report|access-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705003216/https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/|archive-date=July 5, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She believes the federal government should increase investment in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Vox - top house democrat" /> In August 2020, Ocasio-Cortez and [[Nydia Velázquez]] introduced the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2020, which was referred to the [[House Committee on Natural Resources]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Acevedo|first=Nicole|date=August 26, 2020|title=New AOC, Velázquez bill sparks backlash from pro-statehood Puerto Ricans|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-aoc-vel-zquez-bill-puerto-rico-s-status-sparks-n1238192|access-date=January 28, 2021|website=[[NBC News]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Velazquez|first=Nydia M.|date=August 25, 2020|title=Text – H.R.8113 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2020|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8113/text|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=www.congress.gov}}</ref>
 
On March 18, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez and Senator [[Bob Menendez]] introduced a new version, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://velazquez.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-velazquez-ocasio-cortez-senator-menendez-introduce-puerto-rico-self|title = Reps. Velazquez, Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Menendez Introduce Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021|website=velazquez.house.gov|date = March 18, 2021|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref> with over 70 co-sponsors in the House and seven co-sponsors in the Senate, including one Republican.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-bill-puerto-rico-status-introduced-reps-aoc-vel-zquez-n1261458|title=New bill on Puerto Rico status introduced by Reps. AOC, Velázquez, Sen. Menendez|website=[[NBC News]]|date=March 18, 2021 }}</ref>
 
====Withdrawal of Biden====
After the [[2024 United States presidential debates#June 27 presidential debate (Atlanta)|June 2024 presidential debate]], Ocasio-Cortez, who previously supported Biden during the campaign,<ref>{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez, the Pragmatic Progressive Looking to Boost Biden |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-25/ocasio-cortez-the-pragmatic-progressive-looking-to-boost-biden |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref> said that she had spoken with Biden and that he made clear he was staying in the race. She said that she supported him and that her focus was defeating Republicans in the election.<ref name=RCP>{{cite web |last1=Hains |first1=Tim |title=AOC: Joe Biden Is The Democratic Nominee, "This Matter Is Closed" |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/08/aoc_joe_biden_is_the_democratic_nominee_this_matter_is_closed.html |website=realclearpolitics.com |publisher=[[Real Clear Politics]] |access-date=9 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Brent |title=AOC gives a full-throated defense of Biden: 'He is not leaving this race' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-joe-biden-debate-response-our-nominee-not-leaving-race-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Brent |title=AOC gives a full-throated defense of Biden: 'He is not leaving this race' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-joe-biden-debate-response-our-nominee-not-leaving-race-2024-7 |access-date=11 July 2024 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref> Later, on July 19, she held an ''Instagram Live'' in which she said that replacing Biden was risky and legally challenging, but suggested that nominating [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Kamala Harris]] was better than an open convention.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Metzger |first1=Brian |title=AOC unloads on Biden's critics in late-night Instagram Live |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-joe-biden-drop-out-criticism-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider |access-date=19 July 2024}}</ref> When Biden [[Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election|withdrew from the race]], she endorsed Harris.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Kamala Harris After Earlier Warning of 'Enormous Peril' for Replacing Biden |url=https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-drops-out-election-2024/card/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-endorses-kamala-harris-after-earlier-warning-of-enormous-peril-for-replacing-biden-HS35H6WKkTLGui38OIZ7 |website=wsj.com |publisher=The Washington Post |access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref>
 
===Healthcare===
Ocasio-Cortez supports transitioning to a [[single-payer healthcare]] system and considers medical care a [[Human rights|human right]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: In a modern, moral, wealthy society, no person should be too poor to live |last=Clifford |first=Catherine |date=June 29, 2018|access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629221816/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=live |publisher=[[CNBC]]}}</ref><ref name="This is the platform">{{Cite news |first=John |last=Haltiwanger |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |title=This is the platform that launched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, to the biggest political upset of the year |work=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630025045/http://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> She says that a single government health insurer should cover every American, reducing overall costs.<ref name="Jeff Stein campaigning" /> Her campaign website says, "Almost every other developed nation in the world has [[Universal health care|universal healthcare]]. It's time the United States catch up to the rest of the world in ensuring all people have real healthcare coverage that doesn't break the bank."<ref name="This is the platform" /> Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates adopted the Medicare-for-all proposal.<ref name="Suderman 2018" />
 
In June 2019 and in July 2021, Ocasio-Cortez proposed legislation that would remove restrictions placed on researching the medical use of [[psilocybin]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reliford|first=Alexis|date=June 9, 2019|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants It To Be Easier To Study Magic Mushrooms & Other Psychedelics|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/234920/aoc-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-mdma-legalize-medical-study|access-date=February 8, 2021|website=www.refinery29.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jaeger|first=Kyle|date=July 22, 2021|title=AOC Promotes Research On Benefits Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And MDMA With New Amendment|url=https://www.marijuanamoment.net/aoc-promotes-research-on-benefits-of-psychedelics-like-psilocybin-and-mdma-with-new-amendment/|access-date=July 23, 2021|website=Marijuana Moment|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
===Social issues===
[[File:Ministra Camila Vallejo, recibe a Delegación de Congresistas Demócratas en la Moneda (53125810354).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez with [[Camila Vallejo]] in Chile in 2023]]
 
====Abortion rights====
{{main|Abortion rights}}
Ocasio-Cortez supports codifying the right to abortion, and is a member of the House pro-choice caucus.<ref>{{cite web | title=Reproductive Rights | website=Representative Ocasio-Cortez | date=September 17, 2021 |url=http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/reproductive-rights | ref={{sfnref | Representative Ocasio-Cortez | 2021}} | access-date=July 22, 2022}}</ref> On July 19, 2022, after the Supreme Court overruled ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' in ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'', she and 17 other members of Congress were arrested in an act of [[civil disobedience]] for refusing to clear a street during a protest for reproductive rights outside the [[United States Supreme Court Building|Supreme Court Building]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Aratani | first=Lauren | title=Democratic members of Congress arrested during pro-choice protest | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=July 19, 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/aoc-arrested-protest-abortion-rights-democrats | access-date=July 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar among Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest | website=[[NBC News]]|first=Dareh|last=Gregorian | date=July 19, 2022 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/reps-ocasio-cortez-omar-democrats-arrested-abortion-rights-protest-rcna38956 | access-date=July 22, 2022}}</ref>
 
====Education====
Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in favor of establishing tuition-free public colleges and trade schools. She has said she is still paying off [[student loans]] herself and wants to cancel all [[student debt]].<ref name="This is the platform" />
 
====Immigration====
Ocasio-Cortez has expressed support for defunding and [[Abolish ICE|abolishing]] the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE) agency on multiple occasions. In February 2018 she called it "a product of the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush-era]] [[Patriot Act]] suite of legislation" and "an enforcement agency that takes on more of a paramilitary tone every single day".<ref>{{cite news |first=Clio |last=Chang |url=https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744 |title=Talking With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Woman Challenging One of New York's Political Kingmakers |date=March 22, 2018 |publisher=[[Splinter News]]|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628153546/https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Jack |last=Holmes |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |title=Fox News Reminds Us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform Is ... Pretty Reasonable |publisher=Common Dreams |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712222623/https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> That June, she said she would "stop short of fully disbanding the agency", and would rather "create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization".<ref>{{cite web |first=Max |last=Siegelbaum |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/ |title=Early Arrival: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins in upset over Joe Crowley |publisher=Documented NY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713010717/https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/|archive-date=July 13, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref> She later clarified that this does not mean ceasing all deportations.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=ocasio2018 |number=1031926879752802304 |date=August 21, 2018 |title=#AbolishICE means not having an agency that incarcerates children and sexually assaults women with impunity. It does not mean abolish deportation. Also, I have no problem saying white supremacy has no place in this country. It's the GOP that struggles to say that. |access-date=December 10, 2018}}</ref> Two days before the primary election, Ocasio-Cortez attended a protest at an ICE child-detention center in [[Tornillo, Texas|Tornillo]], Texas.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? |last=Neuman |first=Scott |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=[[NPR]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627080006/https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> She was the only Democrat to vote against H.R. 648, a bill to fund and reopen the government, because it funded ICE.<ref>
{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez is lone Democrat to vote against bill to reopen government |work=[[NBC News]] |access-date=February 7, 2019 |date=January 24, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205002024/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-date = February 5, 2019| url-status=live}}
*''For H.R. 648, see:'' {{cite web |title=H.R. 648 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648 |date=January 23, 2019 |publisher=Office of the Clerk. U.S. House of Representatives |url-status=live |access-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180240/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648|archive-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref>
 
In January 2021, Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for the Roadmap to Freedom resolution to guide future immigration policy championed by Representative [[Pramila Jayapal]]. The resolution aims to safeguard vulnerable migrants while reducing criminal prosecutions of migrants.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woodward |first1=Alex |title=Jayapal, AOC and progressive Democrats push 'overhaul' of US immigration system |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-immigration-reform-aoc-jayapal-b1793785.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127221940/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-immigration-reform-aoc-jayapal-b1793785.html |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=January 27, 2021}}</ref>
 
=====Detention centers for undocumented immigrants=====
{{main|Trump administration migrant detentions}}
 
In June 2019, Ocasio-Cortez compared the [[Trump administration migrant detentions|detention centers for undocumented immigrants]] under the [[Trump administration]] at the [[Mexico–United States border]] to "[[concentration camps]]". She cited "expert analysis", linking to an ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' article quoting [[Andrea Pitzer]], author of ''One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps'', who had made a similar claim.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explained |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/ |website=Times of Israel |author=JTA |access-date=June 25, 2019 |date=June 19, 2019 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153110/https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="CCampDebate">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps |title=The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps |last=Gessen |first=Masha |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=June 21, 2019 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623012148/https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps |url-status=live }}</ref> Some academics supported Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term for the forced detention of immigrants;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hignett |first1=Katherine |title=Academics rally behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over concentration camp comments: 'She is completely historically accurate' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483 |website=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=June 24, 2019 |date=June 24, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823104256/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lind-Guzik |first1=Anna |title=I'm a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers "concentration camps". |url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/20/18693058/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigration-border |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |access-date=June 23, 2019 |date=June 20, 2019 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622145528/https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/20/18693058/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigration-border |url-status=live }}</ref> others strongly criticized it, saying it showed disrespect for [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] victims.<ref>{{cite news |title=Yad Vashem to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Learn about concentration camps |first=Ilanit |last=Chernick |url=https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Yad-Vashem-to-AOC-Learn-about-concentration-camps-593059 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=June 20, 2019 |access-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622112815/https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Yad-Vashem-to-AOC-Learn-about-concentration-camps-593059 |url-status=live }}</ref> In response to criticism from both Republicans and Democrats,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stolberg |first1=Sheryl |title=Ocasio-Cortez Calls Migrant Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps,' Eliciting Backlash |date=June 18, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/politics/ocasio-cortez-cheney-detention-centers.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 14, 2020 |archive-date=June 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613130347/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/politics/ocasio-cortez-cheney-detention-centers.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez said they had conflated concentration camps ("the mass detention of civilians without trial") with [[death camps]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rodrigo |first1=Chris |title=Ocasio-Cortez dismisses criticism from 'shrieking Republicans' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449076-ocasio-cortez-defends-concentration-camp-comments/ |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=June 24, 2019 |date=June 18, 2019 |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623151515/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449076-ocasio-cortez-defends-concentration-camp-comments |url-status=live }}</ref> She refused to apologize for using the term: "If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps, not the nomenclature."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gstalter |first1=Morgan |title=Ocasio-Cortez stands by concentration camp remarks: 'I will never apologize' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449348-ocasio-cortez-stands-by-concentration-camp-remarks-i-will-never-apologize-for/ |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=June 23, 2019 |date=June 19, 2019 |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623151334/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449348-ocasio-cortez-stands-by-concentration-camp-remarks-i-will-never-apologize-for |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez visited migrant detention centers and other facilities in Texas as part of a congressional delegation to witness the border crisis firsthand. She called the conditions "horrifying". She said that women in one cell said they had not had access to showers for two weeks and were told to drink water from the toilet when their sink broke, and that one woman said that her daughters had been taken from her two weeks earlier and she did not know where they were.<ref>{{cite news |title=Border agents confiscated lawmakers' phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/ocasio-cortez-says-dispute-with-border-patrol-agents-started-after-one-tried-take-stealth-selfie/ |first1=Katie |last1=Mettler |first2=Mike |last2=DeBonis |first3=Reis |last3=Thebault |date=July 2, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702164257/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/ocasio-cortez-says-dispute-with-border-patrol-agents-started-after-one-tried-take-stealth-selfie/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/migrant-children-detained-clint-border-patrol-station-congressional-hispanic-caucus/1625831001/ |title='Broken' and 'horrifying': AOC, Joaquin Castro, lawmakers visit Texas border facilities |website=[[USA Today]] |date=July 2, 2019 |last1=Villagran |first1=Lauren |access-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702162459/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/migrant-children-detained-clint-border-patrol-station-congressional-hispanic-caucus/1625831001/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In February 2021, when the Biden administration reopened a [[Carrizo Springs, Texas]], center to house unaccompanied migrant children, Ocasio-Cortez responded that such actions "never will be okay—no matter the administration or party".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ordoñez |first1=Franco |title=Biden Pledges That Border Shelter For Teens 'Won't Stay Open Very Long' |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971425227/fact-check-biden-reopens-border-shelters-for-teens-but-its-not-kids-in-cages |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=[[NPR]] |date=February 25, 2021}}</ref> For short-term measures to address the situation, she called for mandatory licensing for such centers and urged reconsideration of how the centers are "contracted out".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Aggarwal |first1=Mayank |title=AOC joins backlash over Biden child migrant camp: 'This is not okay' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-child-migrant-camp-b1806510.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224094211/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-child-migrant-camp-b1806510.html |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=February 24, 2021}}</ref>
 
====LGBT+ rights====
Ocasio-Cortez is a proponent of [[LGBT rights|LGBT+ rights]] and equality. She has said she supports the community and thanked its members for their role in her campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Eve |last=Hartley |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thanks LGBT community after landmark win |publisher=PinkNews |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161747/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Vox - top house democrat" /> At the January 2019 New York City [[2019 Women's March|Women's March]] in [[LGBT culture in New York City|Manhattan]], Ocasio-Cortez gave a detailed speech in support of measures needed to ensure LGBT+ equality in the workplace and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thegavoice.com/news/aoc-gives-powerful-pro-lgbtq-speech-at-nyc-womens-march/ |title=AOC Gives Powerful Pro-LGBTQ Speech at NYC Women's March |first=Katie |last=Burkholder |date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=February 17, 2019 |archive-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203175513/https://thegavoice.com/news/aoc-gives-powerful-pro-lgbtq-speech-at-nyc-womens-march/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She has also spoken in support of [[transgender]] rights, specifically saying, "Trans rights are civil rights are human rights."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-joins-charity-twitch-stream-for-trans-youth.html |work=thecut.com |publisher=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Casually Joins Gaming Livestream For a Good Cause |first=Amanda |last=Arnold |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412150325/https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-joins-charity-twitch-stream-for-trans-youth.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Later, she appeared on a [[video game live stream]] to help raise money for [[Mermaids (charity)|Mermaids]], a UK-based charity for transgender children.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spent Her Weekend Dunking on Aaron Sorkin and Raising Money for Trans Kids |last=Dessem |first=Matthew |date=January 21, 2019 |publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=January 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121232832/https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
At the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on February 27, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez argued for LGBTQ equality in the context of her religious background. Referencing a Catholic hospital that refused a [[hysterectomy]] for a transgender man,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Avery |first1=Daniel |title=Court Rules Transgender Man Can Sue Hospital That Canceled His Hysterectomy |url=https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-man-sue-hospital-evan-minton-1460664 |website=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227160954/https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-man-sue-hospital-evan-minton-1460664 |url-status=live }}</ref> she argued, "[t]here is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital."<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeMarche |first1=Edmund |title=Ocasio-Cortez says Jesus would be maligned in Congress |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-says-jesus-would-be-maligned-in-congress |website=[[Fox News]] |access-date=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=February 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228100115/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-says-jesus-would-be-maligned-in-congress |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ Rights |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvEzMybwus |website=YouTube | date=February 27, 2020 |publisher=Oversight Committee |access-date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303134729/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvEzMybwus |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
====Police funding====
Ocasio-Cortez supports the "[[defund the police]]" movement. Asked to give her interpretation of the movement, she said, "It looks like a suburb ... affluent white communities already ... fund youth, health, housing etc. more than they fund police. When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb ... White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration ... Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?"<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dixon |first=Emily |date=2020-06-12 |title=AOC Was Asked About Defunding the Police and Her Answer Went Viral |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32849383/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defund-the-police/ |access-date=2023-08-21 |magazine=[[Marie Claire]] |language=en}}</ref>
 
==Political endorsements==
Ocasio-Cortez endorsed [[Bernie Sanders]] in the 2020 presidential election and appeared with him at speaking engagements. Campaign rallies she attended with him drew the largest crowds of any presidential rally. On January 25, she joined [[Michael Moore]] to fill in for Sanders at a rally at the University of Iowa while Sanders was attending the Senate's [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|Trump impeachment trial]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicosia |first1=Dominic |title=Speculation Of AOC's Presidential Run Goes Rampant As She Stumps For Sanders |date=December 27, 2019 |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/speculation-aocs-presidential-run-goes-rampant-she-stumps-sanders-2893070 |website=International Business Times |access-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128051234/https://www.ibtimes.com/speculation-aocs-presidential-run-goes-rampant-she-stumps-sanders-2893070 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Hunter |title=AOC and Michael Moore urge Iowa voters not to 'play it safe' as they stand in for Sanders |url=https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/01/25/aoc-and-michael-moore-urge-iowa-voters-not-to-play-it-safe-as-they-stand-in-for-sanders/23908632/ |date=January 25, 2020 |website=[[Yahoo! News]] |access-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-date=January 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125204346/https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/01/25/aoc-and-michael-moore-urge-iowa-voters-not-to-play-it-safe-as-they-stand-in-for-sanders/23908632/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In January 2020, Ocasio-Cortez announced the formation of a [[Political action committee|PAC]] called [[Courage to Change (political action committee)|Courage to Change]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pac-courage-to-change_n_5e1abaebc5b650c621dfcb12 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's New PAC Is Already Raising Big Money |last=Marans |first=Daniel |date=January 12, 2020 |website=[[HuffPost]]|language=en |access-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220035128/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pac-courage-to-change_n_5e1abaebc5b650c621dfcb12 |url-status=live }}</ref> which announced its first endorsements of progressive Democrats on February 21, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-announces-new-pac-endorses-slate-progressive-candidates-congress-n1140306 |title=AOC announces new PAC, endorses slate of progressive candidates for Congress |first=Rebecca |last=Shabad |work=[[NBC News]] |date=February 21, 2020 |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-date=March 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318214049/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-announces-new-pac-endorses-slate-progressive-candidates-congress-n1140306 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some progressive commentators subsequently criticized Ocasio-Cortez for having only endorsed two Democratic primary challengers by March 3. A notable omission was [[Cori Bush]], who had received an endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez two years prior.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/29/the-new-aoc-divides-the-left-1269548 |title=The 'new' AOC divides the left |first1=Alex |last1=Thompson |first2=Holly |last2=Otterbein |website=[[Politico]]|date=March 30, 2020 |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410221919/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/29/the-new-aoc-divides-the-left-1269548 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In July 2023, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed President [[Joe Biden]] in his reelection campaign in the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/aoc-endorses-biden-2024-president-democrats-3c722f5ac1bc2c568b6d962d4fe4e2b7 |title=Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden's reelection campaign, sending a strong signal of Democratic unity |first=Michelle |last=Price |work=[[Associated Press]]|date=July 7, 2023 |access-date=August 21, 2023 }}</ref> When he suspended his campaign in July 2024, she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC endorses Harris as Democratic nominee |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/rep-ocasio-cortez-endorses-harris-as-democratic-nominee-215353413928 |website=nbcnews.com |publisher=NBC News |access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref>
 
In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed [[Jamaal Bowman]], a member of the Squad.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jamaal Bowman's Loss Is the Start of a New Era |date=June 26, 2024 |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bowman-latimer-primary-aipac-result.html |publisher=New York Magazine |access-date=June 26, 2024}}</ref> During his campaign, she held a rally in support of him with Sanders.<ref>{{cite web |title=AOC, Bernie Sanders rally with Bowman ahead of primary election |url=https://www.bxtimes.com/bowman-rally-aoc-sanders/ |website=bxtimes.com |date=June 24, 2024 |publisher=BX Times |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref>
 
==Congressional service==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:94%; margin:auto;"
|-
! colspan="7" style="background:#cff;"|[[United States Congress]]ional service
|-
!Dates
!Congress
!Chamber
!Majority
!President
!Committees
!Class/District
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
|2019–2021
|[[116th United States Congress|116th]]
|rowspan="2" |[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House]]
|rowspan="2" |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|[[Donald Trump]]
|rowspan="2" |[[United States House Committee on Financial Services|Financial Services]], [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Oversight and Reform]]
|rowspan="2" |[[New York's 14th congressional district|District 14]]
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
|2021–2023
|[[117th United States Congress|117th]]
|[[Donald Trump]]<br />[[Joe Biden]]
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
|2023–2025
|[[118th United States Congress|118th]]
|[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House]]
|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|[[Joe Biden]]
|[[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|Natural Resources]], [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Oversight and Accountability]]
|[[New York's 14th congressional district|District 14]]
|-
|}
 
==Electoral history==
===2018===
{{Election box begin no change
| title = 2018 New York's 14th congressional district Democratic primary
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 16,898
| percentage = 56.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Joseph Crowley]] (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 12,880
| percentage = 43.3
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 29,778
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
{{Election box begin no change
| title = [[2018 New York's 14th congressional district election]]
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 110,318
| percentage = 78.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Anthony Pappas
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 19,202
| percentage = 13.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''Joseph Crowley''
| party = Working Families Party
| votes = 8,075
| percentage = 5.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''Joseph Crowley''
| party = Women's Equality Party (New York)
| votes = 1,273
| percentage = 0.9
}}
{{Election box candidate no change
| candidate = [[Joseph Crowley]] (incumbent)
| party = Total
| votes = 9,348
| percentage = 6.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Elizabeth Perri
| party = Conservative Party of New York State
| votes = 2,254
| percentage = 1.6
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 141,122
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no change
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
===2020===
{{Election box begin no change
| title = 2020 New York's 14th congressional district Democratic primary<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-14-primary-election.html |title=New York Primary Election Results: 14th Congressional District |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 17, 2020 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923223716/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-14-primary-election.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 46,577
| percentage = 74.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera]]
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 11,337
| percentage = 18.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Badrun Khan
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 3,119
| percentage = 5.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Sam Sloan]]
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 1,406
| percentage = 2.3
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 62,439
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
{{Election box begin no change
| title = [[2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14|2020 New York's 14th congressional district general election]]
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 152,661
| percentage = 71.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''John Cummings''
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 52,477
| percentage = 24.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''John Cummings''
| party = Conservative Party of New York State
| votes = 5,963
| percentage = 2.8
}}
{{Election box candidate no change
| candidate = John Cummings
| party = Total
| votes = 58,440
| percentage = 27.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera]]
| party = Serve America Movement
| votes = 2,000
| percentage = 1.0
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 213,101
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no change
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
===2022===
 
{{Election box begin no change
| title = [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14|2022 New York's 14th congressional district general election]]{{efn|Ocasio-Cortez ran unopposed in her primary.<ref name=UC/>}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez''
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 74,050
| percentage = 63.40
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = ''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez''
| party = Working Families Party
| votes = 8,403
| percentage = 7.19
}}
{{Election box candidate no change
| candidate = '''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent)'''
| party = '''Total'''
| votes = '''82,453'''
| percentage = '''70.60'''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Tina Forte
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 31,935
| percentage = 27.34
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Desi Cuellar
| party = Conservative Party of New York State
| votes = 2,208
| percentage = 1.89
}}
{{Election box write-in with party link no change
| votes = 194
| percentage = 0.17
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 116,790
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no change
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
===2024===
{{Election box begin no change
| title = 2024 New York's 14th congressional district Democratic primary<ref>{{cite news |title=New York 14th Congressional District Primary Election Results |work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/25/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-14-primary.html |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 19,070
| percentage = 82.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Martin Dolan
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 4,149
| percentage = 17.9
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 23,219
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
 
==Awards and honors==
The [[MIT Lincoln Laboratory]] named the [[asteroid]] [[23238 Ocasio-Cortez]] after her when she was a senior in high school in recognition of her second-place finish in the 2007 [[Intel International Science and Engineering Fair]].<ref name="Malloy Rising"/><ref name="NASA"/> Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by [[Ernesto Nieto]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year" /> In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez received the [[Adelle Foley Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners |title=PEN Oakland Awards & Winners |website=PEN Oakland |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153109/https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |access-date=March 26, 2020 }}</ref> She was named as one of the 2019 [[BBC 100 Women]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/466199-ocasio-cortez-thunberg-and-rapinoe-make-bbcs-100-most-inspiring/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Thunberg, Rapinoe make BBC's 100 most inspiring women of 2019 |last=Folley |first=Aris |date=October 16, 2019 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415044902/https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/466199-ocasio-cortez-thunberg-and-rapinoe-make-bbcs-100-most-inspiring |archive-date=April 15, 2020 |access-date=February 23, 2020 }}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
After the death of Ocasio-Cortez's father in 2008, her mother and grandmother moved to [[Florida]] due to financial hardship.<ref name="Vivian Wang Giant Slayer" /><ref name="Huffpo - 5 reasons" /> She still has family in [[Puerto Rico]], where her grandfather was living in a nursing home<ref name="Puerto Rico Report" /> before he died in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Maria]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/my-grandfather-died-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slams-trump-puerto-rico-pr-tweet/1821994/ |date=September 14, 2018 |title='My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial |publisher=NBC New York|access-date=September 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233312/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/My-Grandfather-Died-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Slams-Trump-Puerto-Rico-PR-Tweet-493285661.html |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-date=September 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez said that "to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of{{spaces}}... African [[Moors]] [and] [[Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies|slaves]], [[Taíno|Taino Indians]], Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once—we are ''[[Boricua]]''."<ref name=Goldmacher/>
 
Ocasio-Cortez is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]. She discussed her faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for [[Criminal justice reform in the United States|criminal justice reform]] in a 2018 article she wrote for ''[[America (magazine)|America]]'', the magazine of the [[Jesuit]] order in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ocasio-Cortez |first=Alexandria |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal |access-date=August 31, 2018 |newspaper=[[America (magazine)|America]] |quote=Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the [[Catechism of the Catholic Church|Catechism]]: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627233436/https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She said she has some [[Sephardic Jewish]] ancestry.<ref name="Jewish">Citations for Jewish ancestry:
*{{Cite news |last=Stanley-Becker |first=Isaac |date=December 9, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 26, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live }}
*{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez reveals her Jewish heritage: 'I knew it! I sensed it!' |work=[[NBC News]] |access-date=January 26, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216005639/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}
*{{Cite news |first=Taly |last=Krupkin |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews' |work=[[Haaretz]] |access-date=December 9, 2018 |quote=a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210054547/https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455 |archive-date=December 10, 2018 |url-status=live}}
*{{Cite news |first=Cummings |last=William |date=December 11, 2018 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/11/ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry/2275410002/ |title=Incoming congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at New York Hanukkah event |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112409/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/11/ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry/2275410002/ |url-status=live }}
*{{Cite news |first=Ben |last=Sales |date=August 1, 2019 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-ocasio-cortez-israel-anti-semitism-holocaust-sanders-20190807-20190801-ukn6meextnfdrearjx4ew2qzym-story.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez talks about Israel, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Bernie Sanders |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008060341/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-ocasio-cortez-israel-anti-semitism-holocaust-sanders-20190807-20190801-ukn6meextnfdrearjx4ew2qzym-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in [[Parkchester, Bronx]], with her partner, [[web developer]] Riley Roberts.<ref name="Abigail Hess apartment">{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html |title=Youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford an apartment in D.C. |last=Hess |first=Abigail |date=November 8, 2018 |website=[[CNBC]]|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233348/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html|archive-date=November 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=OcasioRoberts>{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the Midterms |first=Irina |last=Aleksander |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=October 15, 2018 |access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116065645/https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Igoe |first=Katherine J. |date=January 15, 2019 |title=Everything We Know About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Boyfriend |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everything-know-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-155000127.html |magazine=[[Marie Claire]] |access-date=February 17, 2019 |archive-date=February 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218082242/https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everything-know-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-155000127.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> They became engaged in April 2022 in [[Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Eliza |last1=Relman |last2=Lahut |first2=Jake |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirms she's engaged to longtime partner Riley Roberts: 'Yep! It's true' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-engagement-confirmed-boyfriend-name-riley-roberts-2022-5 |access-date=May 19, 2022 |website=[[Business Insider]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
 
In 2021, the [[Watchdog journalism|watchdog]] group [[OpenSecrets]], analyzing financial disclosure forms, ranked Ocasio-Cortez one of the least wealthy members of the 116th Congress, with a maximum [[net worth]] of $30,000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Freshmen in the 116th Congress |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/new-members?display=A&year=2018 |website=Open Secrets |publisher=[[OpenSecrets]] |access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref>
 
In May 2021, Ocasio-Cortez said that she had been in [[psychotherapy]] after the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]], which she called "extraordinarily traumatizing", saying she "did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive".<ref>{{cite news |last=Garner |first=Glenn |url=https://people.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sought-therapy-after-capitol-riots/ |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sought Therapy After 'Extraordinarily Traumatizing' Capitol Riots |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=May 22, 2021 |access-date=May 25, 2021 }}</ref>
 
Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of the [[New York Yankees]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Rosenburg |first=Eli |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/04/15/aoc-says-shes-diehard-fan-new-york-baseball-team-not-one-her-district/ |title= AOC says she's a diehard fan of a New York baseball team — but not the one in her district |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=April 15, 2019|access-date=April 21, 2024 }}</ref>
 
==See also==
*[[List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress]]
*[[List of Democratic Socialists of America who have held office in the United States]]
*[[Nuyorican]]
*[[Puerto Ricans in New York City]]
*[[Puerto Ricans in the United States#New York City|Puerto Ricans in the United States]]
*[[Women in the United States House of Representatives]]
 
== Explanatory notes ==
{{Notelist}}
 
==References==
{{reflist}}
 
==Further reading==
* {{cite book | last=Lopez | first=Lynda | title=AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |publisher=[[St. Martin's Publishing Group]] | publication-place=New York | date=2020 | isbn=978-1-250-25741-3 | oclc=1141032197}}
* {{cite book | author=((The Editors of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine)) | title=Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC | publisher= [[Simon & Schuster]] | publication-place=New York | date=2022 | isbn=978-1-5011-6697-6 | oclc=1263661994}}
 
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*{{official website|https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov}}
*[https://www.ocasiocortez.com/ Campaign website]
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*[https://www.politifact.com/personalities/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's file] at [[PolitiFact]]
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