At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Nampa, Idaho on Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused the Trump Administration of prioritizing billionaires.
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00:00This is what oligarchy feels like. Not someday. Not in theory. Right now. And the first step is to open our eyes and our neighbors' eyes to it.
00:15Because of course it is a system that depends on division to enable inequality that will favor a president who is the best at dividing us and most skilled at his corruption.
00:29And it will also reward the Republicans in Congress who support that agenda no matter what crimes are committed.
00:40Big money is how we got Donald Trump. His whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins and cryptocurrencies to fleece normal people and move money in the dark.
00:54Extortion settlements from media companies and the law firms who gladly pay them. The removal of duly elected officials.
01:05I'll tell you, even Republican, the removal of Republican officials from where the inauguration was happening in order to make room for who Trump really wants in charge, which is the billionaires that were standing behind him.
01:19Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. And all of this has one central economic mission. To make billionaires richer at the expense of our country.
01:34And so it does not surprise us that their first economic priority has been to target Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, the firing of our federal workers and the cutting of our veterans for hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts so that they can hand that money off.
01:52And Idaho, I know that looking around here, it can feel impossible for Republicans out here to be defeated.
02:04But we are here for a reason. Because that's not true. It's simply not true.
02:11And from the waitress who is now speaking to you today from this podium, I can tell you impossible is nothing.
02:21Miracles start with mustard seeds. And that is what each and every one of you represents today.
02:31Small miracles of faith in ourselves, in each other and in the refusal to give up.
02:39So we are here for the long haul, Idaho. We're here to flip this state. We've not given up.
02:49From the most impossible place, we will try.
02:55For school boards and community associations. For small business groups and town councils.
03:05For public arts and gestures of inclusion. And we will build from there.
03:14It begins today.