AOC Says Elon is Gutting Medicaid to Pay for His Federal Contracts

“We let a$$holes like Elon Musk gut Medicaid and gut Social Security in order for him to pay for A. his own tax cuts and B. his own billion dollars in private federal contracts," AOC explained.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) post-Trump address analysis was better than most, probably because she didn’t attend the dog and pony show and instead stayed focused on The People.

The Democrat called out the claims that we don’t have enough money for an improved social safety net, pointing out that we don’t have that money because: “We let assholes like Elon Musk gut Medicaid and gut Social Security in order for him to pay for A. his own tax cuts and B. his own billion dollars in private federal contracts.”

Listen here:

AOC: The worst sin that can happen is that you accidentally gave someone health care? You accidentally let someone see a doctor, and that is like a crime. Because why?

And before people say we don't have the money for it — We don't have the we don't, quote, unquote, have the money for better, a better and improved social safety net, because we let assholes like Elon Musk gut Medicaid and gut Social Security in order for him to pay for A. his own tax cuts and B. his own billion dollars in private federal contracts.

This guy takes billions and billions of your tax dollars, of your public funds, of and it's not just Elon, all these guys, a lot of a lot of these tech guys that were standing behind Trump at the inauguration.

She called out the “tech” industry as just the new defense contractor industry:

A lot of tech talks about themselves as tech, but they're really just defense contractors. They're the new Boeing. They're the new Lockheed Martin. They're defense contractors, and they are robbing us of the tiny slivers of what we have left in our in our collective public social safety net in order to get billion dollar defense contracts.

AOC pointed out the lie of firing federal workers to “save money” when if every single federal worker was fired, it would only be “something like 4% of the federal budget”:

Because here's that you want to hear another interesting fact, you could fire every single federal worker and it would still be on something only like 4% of the federal budget.