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| Crocodile tears? AOC breaks down crying after withdrawing ‘NO’ vote on funding Israeli missile defense at last minute | Crocodile tears? AOC breaks down crying after withdrawing ‘NO’ vote on funding Israeli missile defense at last minute |
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| After changing her vote from ‘no’ to a noncommittal ‘present’ at the last moment, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen crying as the House passed funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. | |
| The House passed a $1 billion bill on Thursday to replenish Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense system, depleted after a week of relentless rocket attacks from Palestinian militants this summer. The funding was originally included in a broader spending bill, but was voted on separately after progressives – including Ocasio-Cortez – threatened to scupper the legislation on Tuesday if it remained included. | |
| The funding bill passed by 420 votes to nine, with two representatives voting ‘present’. Despite her earlier opposition, Ocasio-Cortez switched her vote from ‘no’ to ‘present’ at the final moment. | |
| The New York Congresswoman was then seen weeping on the House floor, and being consoled by fellow Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington), who voted to arm Israel. | |
| It is still unclear why Ocasio-Cortez switched her vote at the last minute, and whether her tears were an expression of genuine anguish at the decision, or an attempt to stave off anger from her progressive supporters. However, AOC has broken with her base in a similar manner before, voting ‘present’ on a bill to provide funding of $2 billion to the Capitol Police earlier this year, despite her advocacy for defunding law enforcement several months earlier. The bill ended up passing by a single vote. | |
| AOC and fellow progressives Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Cori Bush (Missouri) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) are commonly known as ‘The Squad’, and typically vote together and are seen as pushing the Democratic Party to the left. | |
| Yet Omar, Tlaib, Bush and Pressley all voted against funding the Iron Dome, with Tlaib delivering a throaty condemnation of Israel’s “violent apartheid” occupation of Palestine and “war crimes” against the Palestinian people. | Yet Omar, Tlaib, Bush and Pressley all voted against funding the Iron Dome, with Tlaib delivering a throaty condemnation of Israel’s “violent apartheid” occupation of Palestine and “war crimes” against the Palestinian people. |
| AOC’s decision was immediately called out by leftists online, and some pundits took the vote as a sign of the New York progressive cozying up to the Democratic establishment as a means of furthering her career. | AOC’s decision was immediately called out by leftists online, and some pundits took the vote as a sign of the New York progressive cozying up to the Democratic establishment as a means of furthering her career. |
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