‘They want to choose up the telephone’: AOC, Sanders on efforts to finish the Congress stalemate

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized negotiations to finish the federal government shutdown, saying that Republicans “need to pick up a phone.”

“They need to pick up a phone, Katilan. They need to pick up a phone,” Ocasio-Cortez stated in a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday, dismissing Speaker Mike Johnson’s argument that Democrats should settle for a clear persevering with decision handed by House Republicans final month. #CNN #News