Intercept Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Her First Weeks in Washington

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, freshman New York representative, joins Intercept reporters Ryan Grim and Briahna Joy Gray for a conversation about her approach to politics and social media, her thoughts on the 2020 presidential election. As a new member of the House Financial Services Committee, she’s already shaping the conversation with her call to raise the top marginal tax rate to 70 percent. Former NC Rep. Brad Miller, a progressive Democrat who served on the Financial Services Committee, joins the conversation to talk about the challenges Ocasio-Cortez will face there.

... Green New Deal was a working title, and we almost had the understanding that was going to be called something else, but it kept like leaking and catching and people just started writing articles calling it a Green New Deal.