Pelosi Reportedly Blasted ‘The Squad’ And Mocked AOC In New Biography

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly mocked members of “The Squad” — composed of six progressive members of the Democratic Party — in a new biography by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.

Pelosi supposedly talked to the author “ten separate times” for the book.

During the interviews, the top House Democrat reportedly bashed several prominent personalities in her own party including far-left Democrats Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts), and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan). 

The House Speaker reportedly mocked the self proclaimed Democratic socialist AOC for her “apparent ignorance” and “her youth.” Both had a lukewarm relationship ever since with Pelosi steering the agenda of House Democrats, while the 31-year-old lawmaker growing prominence in the party for her far-left leanings. 

“Pelosi unloads on the Squad, at one point adopting a child-like voice when discussing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and offers the Squad this blunt advice: ‘You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States,’” Axios wrote in its report.

The Democratic firebrand AOC has had a tensed relationship with the speaker — clashing with the lifelong Democrat even before formally seated as a representative from New York.

The Daily Wire reported that Ocasio-Cortez’ first appearance in Washington, D.C., was also at an “anti-Pelosi protest.” 

Ocasio-Cortez joined a group of young activists that time who were staging a sit-in protest outside the Capitol Hill office of Pelosi — demanding that time for a “Green New Deal” and “Green jobs for all.”

“The event marked Ocasio-Cortez’ first visit to the soon-to-be Speaker’s office, and leftists were pretty miffed that she introduced herself to her Democratic colleagues not by embracing inter-party collegiality, but by openly disagreeing with her party’s long-time leadership,” the report added.

Other members of the so-called “Squad” also had a tense relationship with Speaker Pelosi, especially after its progressive members first joined Congress following the 2018 election. 

Reports said “Pelosi has taken time to wrangle AOC and her rogue colleagues, and all members of the Squad voted to re-elect Pelosi as speaker of the House in January” — but she backed Pelosi eventually despite calling on her progressive counterparts  to “formulate” a plan to oust the speaker and her Senate counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez said in December, while complaining that her own party lack a “leadership chain” which could help “groom” the next leaders of the party.

“Whenever there is a challenge, it kind of collapses, and that, I think, is the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of real grooming of the next generation of leader,” Ocasio-Cortez said then.

Despite her popularity outside Capitol Hill, AOC appears to not be particularly favored within her party. Last December, she lost a secret ballot for a seat on the powerful House committee — with critics noting that this is a way for her House Democratic colleagues to send her a “chilly message.” 

She lost the seat at the influential Energy and Commerce Committee to fellow New Yorker, Rep. Kathleen Rice, in a secret ballot which gathered a 46-13 vote. 

Meanwhile, aside from The Squad, Pelosi also unloaded on then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying that he “is not a force for good in the country.”

“He is an enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on his own,” the Speaker reportedly said of the Republican senator.

At one point of her series of interviews, Page also wrote that the House Speaker “blames former President Barack Obama over problems whipping votes in favor of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, from lawmakers representing Obama’s home state of Illinois.”

“Why are we having a problem with Illinois?” Pelosi asked according to the report. The author also noted that Pelosi mentioned how Obama “does not deserve sole credit” for getting the measure approved by Congress under his administration.

The book entitled “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi And The Lessons Of Power” is set to be released on April 20.

Steeve Strange

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