Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted “disrespectful” House Republicans after she was accused of playing to cameras while opposing proposed cuts to Medicaid.
The fiery exchange came during a marathon House Energy and Commerce Committee panel session that ran into the early morning hours on Wednesday. The congresswoman questioned how the GOP’s proposed work requirements for the health care program would impact pregnant women.
Ocasio-Cortez started to ask whether there would be an exemption to the work requirements after a miscarriage before she was interrupted by Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX).
Weber said, “We’d like for you to address the Republicans. Let’s have a dialogue this way and not to a camera.”
She was then shut down entirely as the subcommittee’s chair, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), called her comments out of order and moved to the next speaker.
