Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates while Amazon "plans to unplug the New York headquarters" after a backlash

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez welcomed the news that Amazon might consider building a New York headquarters after a fierce response to alleged tax breaks.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was a strong opponent of the projects, citing rent increases and local travel around Seattle's technology headquarters as reasons for rejecting the proposal.

After a litany of local opponents, Amazon would now consider putting an end to its plans to open a new head office in the Queens neighborhood, thus jeopardizing the creation of 25,000 new jobs in the city.

Ocasio-Cortez responded by tweeting: "Can ordinary people get together and organize themselves effectively to fight against the growing drift of one of the largest companies in the world? Yes, they can. & # 39;

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The online retailer has not yet purchased or leased any land for the multi-billion dollar project, which would allow it to easily withdraw plans, an unnamed source told the Washington Post.

According to the source, Amazon officials have recently held internal discussions to re-evaluate the situation in New York and explore other sites.

The announced interest change coincided with the fall in the Amazon stock price of about 2.4% on Friday.

In November, the company owned by Jeff Bezos revealed that she would diversify from her Seattle headquarters and unveiled the cities of New York and Arlington as lucky contenders for her 50,000 combined job plan .

The retailer announced that it was planning to spend $ 5 billion on the two new developments and hoped to get more than $ 2 billion in tax credits and incentives, with plans to apply for them. more.

At the time, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hailed the announcement as an economic triumph, but critics accused the state of providing too much money to punish the deal.

Amazon sent leaflets to Queens residents touting the economic and employment benefits of its expansion in New York City in hopes of dispelling any opposition, but protests still persisted.

Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris, a critic of the plan, has been appointed to a committee to approve the new Amazon campus and has the power to block the plan.

Last week, members of the city council challenged a second time the leaders of the Amazon company during a public hearing during which activists mocked and hated the holding of anti-Amazon signs.

Cuomo congratulated Gianaris and other members of the New York Senate for their short-sighted vision of Amazon's potential impact on the borough and beyond.

"For the Senate of the State to oppose Amazon, it was a government fault. And if they prevent Amazon from coming to New York, they will have to explain to the people of the state of New York, "he said.

"I have never seen such an absurd situation where the political and obvious aggravation thus hampers a project of economic development in good faith.

"We encouraged Amazon to come, as well as all the big companies. You know what was the incentive program? We have revenues of $ 27 billion, they recover $ 3 billion.

I would do this all day.

The social media message followed his comments prior to the initial submission of the proposal.

"Amazon is a billion dollar company," she wrote in November. "The idea of ​​benefiting from tax breaks of several hundred million dollars while our metro collapses and that our communities need MORE investment, not less, worries many people. residents here. "

The following month, city council chair, Corey Johnson, echoed the sentiments of Ocasio-Cortez.

"We have a ruined metro system, a record of homelessness, crisis-ridden social housing, overcrowded schools, sick people without health insurance and a growing and affordable crisis," he said.

"Does any one ask if we should give nearly $ 3 billion in public money to the world's richest society?"

The alleged leak was considered a ploy by the e-commerce giant to negotiate even more favorable conditions at the eleventh hour.

But in a statement to CNN, Amazon denied considering considering revoking HQ2's plans.

"Our goal is to engage with our new neighbors – small business owners, educators and community leaders.

"It's all about creating a local job pool through training the workforce or funding IT courses for thousands of years." students in New York, we work tirelessly to demonstrate what kind of neighbor we will be.

According to the New York Times, Amazon executives are afraid of the uncertainty surrounding Senate plans, having already invested a lot of time and money.

However, they have not yet prepared an emergency plan for a possible plan b if their proposal was suddenly blocked.

The second headquarters, called Amazon HQ2, attracted 238 proposals from across North America during a one-year bidding war that generated wide publicity for the society.

Amazon ended the frenzy by dividing the loot between the two most powerful cities on the east coast of the United States and offering the consolation prize of a 5,000-strong center in Nashville, Tennessee.

At the start of its research last year, Amazon said it was looking for a business-friendly environment.

A controversial proposal allowing the company to build a roof heliport, banned in the city since 9/11, was also buried in the 32-page proposal.

According to Slate, the agreement between Amazon and New York does not force the company to make any contribution to the city's troubled metro system.

However, it contains a clause requiring them to make "payments in lieu of property taxes", at least half of which will be invested in the "Infrastructure Fund" overseen by the City's Economic Development Corporation. from New York.

The fund will support projects such as streets, sidewalks, utility removals, environmental restoration, open public spaces, transportation, schools and signage, around the eventual headquarters site. .

The company said it would receive $ 1.525 billion in performance-based incentives from the state of New York, including an average of $ 48,000 for every job created.

It may also request other tax incentives, such as New York City's relocation and employment badistance program, which offers tax benefits of up to $ 900 million on 12 years. The profit that the company would actually get was not clear.

In November, President Trump resumed the badault on the retail giant and warned lawmakers in New York that they might regret being so lenient towards Bezos Corporation. .

& # 39; They give up a lot; these are expensive offers. Only time will tell. Maybe Amazon will have fierce competition and they will not be the same company in five years, in which case it would be a big mistake, "Trump told The Daily Caller.

Amazon has not been the only online giant to cement its future in the US financial capital.

In December, Google announced that it would invest more than $ 1 billion on a new campus in New York, thereby creating thousands of jobs.