Ocasio-Cortez Foresees Democratic Row Over Biden’s Economic Plan

House Democrats are careening toward an “ugly” intra-party collision over parts of President Joe Biden’s $4.1 trillion economic agenda, warns Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York lawmaker predicted Friday that she and other progressives would come under increasing pressure to help pass a $550 billion public works bill -- as a stand-alone legislation -- and to drop their insistence on pairing it with a sweeping $3.5 trillion package of social, climate and immigration-reform initiatives.

Passing those bills together has been the plan for months, Ocasio-Cortez told her audience at a virtual town hall.

But she said that a ...