Subject: Re: AFGE union calls shutdown end
Adrian, I think you're off the track-

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said the GOP’s accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) shut down the federal government to stop himself from being challenged in a primary election was “such an insane suggestion.”

“In fact, it speaks to how desperate [congressional Republicans] are,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a CNN town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “This claim has been — House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-La.) been saying this, [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune (R-S.D.) has been saying this. They are saying this because they are refusing to do their job. They‘re grasping for straws.”