Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won plaudits from critics for saying her congressional salary is her only income and she doesn't trade stocks.

Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.

Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.

Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    I mean, that’s a large part of Trump’s original appeal, right? So many people on both sides agree there’s rampant corruption in the government and politicians and billionaires getting too rich off it - and Trump promised an answer. And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.

    Now, if you could get Sanders and AOC to start a new party…

    • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.

      Now, if only we can get them to see that he’s got people in his orbit at billionaire techbros who think they’re all going to be John Galt, and that the “capitalist utopia” he builds in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is what they’re trying to build and it won’t be good for them. They think they’re all going to live in their own Galt’s Gulch when it’s going to be more like Andrew Ryan’s Rapture.