Ocasio-Cortez, Scalise Trade Testy Tweets Over Ultra-Rich Taxes

Jan. 7, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, engaged in a testy Twitter back-and-forth over the weekend with Republican Steve Scalise after her call for a sharp tax hike on the highest incomes to fund a massive “Green New Deal.”

The Bronx progressive made the proposal in a short clip from a “60 Minutes” appearance released by CBS on Friday. The interview airs in full later on Sunday.

The appearance on the venerable news show caps a weekend when the 29-year-old continued to burnish her standing as a key voice for a new and diverse generation of Democrats on ...

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