Unlike you, AOC is very much aware of executive powers (weed scheduling, student debt, etc...):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/us/politics/aoc-democrats.html
But doesn’t the White House agree — didn’t it propose a more robust package? The obvious response here is that the administration faces the reality of a 50-50 Senate.
There is an enormous amount of executive action that they’re sitting on that I think is underutilized. On student loans. We’ve got executive action on the table with respect to climate. There are certainly things that we can do with immigration.
So why are we taking this as a legislative compromise, when the opportunity is so much greater, or when Biden could do this stuff with a stroke of a pen, and is just reminding us that he’s choosing not to?
We always try to tell people why they need to settle for less, instead of being able to harness the energy of our grass roots and take political risks in service of them, the same way that we take political risks in service of swing voters. We can do both.
AOC adds no value in Congress. She is one of the most under-performing legislators in terms of actually doing any work and enacting bills. She really should go back to bar-tending and whatever she thinks this is...