“And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?” AOC added

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a “conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the” bill only to walk out with “signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill.”

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    Democrats should give everyone killed by this bill a public face:

    Tom Smith, 45, died because Republicans withheld his medication.

    Anne Miller, 78, starved because Republicans struck her food stamps.

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      Lol… Chuck Schumer actually celebrated getting the bills name changed procedurally as Trump toured the first concentration camp

      Democrats should have a non-stop parade of victims telling their story already. Instead, they’re making speeches to empty rooms on cspan