US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.
“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”
She’s on a tightrope.
She has a lot of people whispering in her ear to primary Schumer in 2028, and calling for someone else to be the majority leader would essentially be a declaration of intent when she’s still weighing her options between that, running for President, accepting a VeeP nomination, or maybe joining the cabinet in 2029.
That’s not a tightrope. Those are just different ways for her to personally respond to the same problem. She could say Chuck and Hakeem suck publicly and all of those options are still on the table.
If she doesn’t persue Schumer’s seat in 2028, she’d be making a powerful senator from her own state an enemy needlessly. She has no vote in the Senate leadership, and she’s not going to change the mind of anyone who does have a say in it. Her strongest allies in the Senate are already going to vote against him. What good does publicly chastising him do?
It lets her constituents and supporters know that she understands and shares their position. That’s the whole purpose of having a representative in the first place. They are supposed to say things on your behalf, and not only when it benefits them personally. In fact, I would argue that you can’t be a good representative if you aren’t willing to do that when it doesn’t personally benefit you.