Crocodile tears? AOC breaks down crying after withdrawing ‘NO’ vote on funding Israeli missile protection finally minute

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After altering her vote from ‘no’ to a noncommittal ‘current’ on the final second, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen crying because the Home handed funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile protection system.

The Home handed a $ 1 billion invoice on Thursday to replenish Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile protection system, depleted after every week of relentless rocket assaults from Palestinian militants this summer time. The funding was initially included in a broader spending invoice, however was voted on individually after progressives – together with Ocasio-Cortez – threatened to scupper the spending invoice on Tuesday if it remained included.

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The funding invoice handed by 420 votes to 9, with two representatives voting ‘current.’ Regardless of her earlier opposition, Ocasio-Cortez switched her vote from ‘no’ to ‘current’ on the closing second.

The New York Congresswoman was then seen weeping on the Home ground, and being consoled by fellow Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington), who voted to arm Israel.

It’s nonetheless unclear why Ocasio-Cortez switched her vote on the final minute, and whether or not her tears have been an expression of real anguish on the choice, or an try and stave off anger from her progressive supporters. Nonetheless, AOC has damaged together with her base in an analogous method earlier than, voting ‘current’ on a invoice to fund the Capitol Police by $ 2 billion earlier this yr, regardless of her advocacy for defunding regulation enforcement a number of months earlier. The invoice ended up passing by a single vote.

AOC and fellow progressives Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Cori Bush (Missouri) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) are generally referred to as ‘The Squad,’ and usually vote collectively and are seen as pushing the Democratic Occasion to the left.

But Omar, Tlaib, Bush and Pressley all voted in opposition to funding the Iron Dome, with Tlaib delivering a throaty condemnation of Israel’s “violent apartheid” occupation of Palestine and “conflict crimes” in opposition to the Palestinian folks.

AOC’s choice was instantly referred to as out by leftists on-line, and a few pundits took the vote as an indication of the New York progressive cozying as much as the Democratic institution as a way of furthering her profession.

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