U.S. Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday promoted her ambitious welfare legislation to constituents in her home district in
New York, finding a friendlier audience than she often encounters in the glare of Washington.
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, has soared to prominence since her
election a year ago, pushing the
Democratic Party to veer to the left ahead of the November 2020 presidential election while becoming a favorite target of conservative
Fox News and
Republicans who consider her too radical.
"If the government worked for us half as much as it works for billionaires and corporations, our lives would be transformed," Ocasio-Cortez said before about 100 people at a public library in the borough of Queens.