Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a get-out-the-vote rally for Rep. Eugene Vindman in Virginia. She says people at the top are cashing in on their power while working families are told to tighten their belts. She argues the intimidation, budget cuts and mass firings facing federal workers aren't about efficiency, but about leaving "as few witnesses as possible to their crimes."
The receipt
- Who
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Where
- rally - get-out-the-vote rally for Rep. Eugene Vindman, Dumfries, Virginia
- Original footage
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 5 on Instagram
Read the transcript
The Trump administration is treating the highest offices in this country like the Trump family business. Every single day we are seeing people holding sacred seats of public trust and trying to use that as an opportunity to cash in for themselves. While working families are told to tighten their belts, the people at the top are cashing in on the very power that we gave them. And while the public servants who make our federal government run are facing intimidation, budget cuts, and mass firings, it's not because of efficiency or cutting red tape. It's because they want as few witnesses as possible to their crimes.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.