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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out on Twitter on Thursday in reaction to President Biden\u2019s announcement of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal reached with a bipartisan group of 21 U.S. senators.<\/p>\n
The New York Democrat asserted that Biden and the Democrats were able to “get GOP on board” for the deal only by excluding racial and ethnic minorities and their concerns.<\/p>\n
Her complaints came just two days after she claimed that a Republican minority shouldn\u2019t have been allowed to assert its position on the Democrats\u2019 voting rights bill.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Twitter thread on infrastructure included a retweeted photo of Biden announcing the deal outside the White House on Thursday, accompanied by an all-White group of 10 of the 21 senators.<\/p>\n
“The diversity of this \u2018bipartisan coalition\u2019 pretty perfectly conveys which communities get centered,” the New York Democrat wrote, “and which get left behind when leaders prioritize bipartisan dealmaking over inclusive lawmaking (which prioritizes delivering the most impact possible for the most people)”<\/p>\n
In subsequent messages, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that having the infrastructure deal be bipartisan wasn\u2019t enough. She argued the plan needed to be more broadly inclusive as well.<\/p>\n
“This is why a bipartisan pkg alone isn\u2019t acceptable,” she wrote. “The exclusion& denial of our communities is what DC bipartisan deals require. That\u2019s how you get GOP on board : don\u2019t do much\/any for the working class & low income,or women, or poc communities, or unions,etc. We must do more.<\/p>\n
She then appeared to blast as complacent those Democrats who would settle for any deal that wasn\u2019t more broadly inclusive.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s why folks can sometimes come across as careless when saying \u2018well isn\u2019t something better than nothing?” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“For many communities, their not having a seat at the table is a precondition for bipartisan deals to work in the 1st place. & that\u2019s not only seen as normal, but valued.”<\/p>\n
The congresswoman\u2019s arguments drew pushback from Twitter users.<\/p>\n
“Looking forward to your upcoming Instagram live where you explain why $0 in infrastructure investment is better than $1.25 trillion, actually,” one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n
“Looking forward to your upcoming Instagram live where you explain why $0 in infrastructure investment is better than $1.25 trillion, actually.”<\/p>\n
“You only care about the skin tones involved,” another writer claimed. “It really isn\u2019t important and makes you a racist.<\/p>\n
“What matters is the skills, ability and the qualifications of the people involved to do the job.<\/p>\n
“In this case however, they\u2019re incompetent as well as not very diverse.”<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t clear if any of the Senate\u2019s 11 current members from racial or ethnic minority groups (eight of them Democrats, three of them Republicans) were among the 11 other negotiating senators who did not appear in the photo with Biden.<\/p>\n
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\n U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Washington. (Getty Images)\n <\/p>\n
Diversity has long been an issue for the Senate, where the current group of racial and ethnic minority members represents a third of only 33 racial or ethnic minorities who have served in the lawmaking body for all of U.S. history, according to the Senate\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez, 31, now in her second term in the U.S. House, has been on something of a tear against the U.S. Senate of late.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, she blasted Senate Republicans\u2019 successful filibuster of the Democrats\u2019 sweeping voting rights bill, asserting that “a minority of Senators” shouldn\u2019t be able to “block voting rights for millions of people.”<\/p>\n
On Monday, she poked fun at U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., for naming his dog Theo after GOP President Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez urged Senate Democrats to “move now” on the party\u2019s agenda, claiming their slim majority in the chamber was extremely fragile and might not last through the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n