House Democrats Criticize AOC Chief of Staff as Party Disputes Warm Up

The rift between Democratic House leaders and their party's most liberal members widened on Friday night as the Democratic caucus sharply criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff on Twitter.

Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, criticized Democratic Republic of Kansas representative Sharice Davids in a tweet last June, hinting that she was perpetuating racism by her actions in Congress.

Late Friday, the official Twitter account of Democrats in the House condemned the tweet Chakrabarti. "Who is this guy and why does he explicitly choose a Native American woman?" She calls Davids, not Sharice, a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat into blue. mouth, "the tweet said.

Michael Hardaway, a spokesman for House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, confirmed the tweet was intentional.

The conflict between Democrats in the House and Chakrabarti comes just a day after Democratic Justice, a liberal political action committee co-founded by Chakrabarti, sent an email to their supporters detailing the divide between members of the left of Congress and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Justice Democrats officially support seven current members of Congress – "The Squad" – including Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Raul Grijalva, Ro Khanna, Ayanna Pressley and Pramila Jayapal.

The Justice Democrats e-mail, titled "#Squad under fire", quotes a recent in camera meeting in which Pelosi asked several supported congressional members not to voice their disagreements on Twitter. The message said, in part, "The saga of Nancy Pelosi is completely out of reach against our continuing team." At an in camera meeting yesterday, Pelosi distinguished the team and its staff, telling them to stop publicly attacking other members "and do not" tweet about it. "

Justice Democrats quickly responded Friday night to the House Democrats' Twitter account by recalling Pelosi's recent directive, titled "Do not tweet".

Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, described the in camera meeting on Twitter's behavior as follows: "The President did not reprimand the progressives, she told all MPs that as a family, we should have our conversations together as caucuses and not on Twitter, it was a general comment that was not directed at any single member or group, it was a unifying speech that was well received. "Hammill then retweeted the reprimand of Chakrabarti by House Democrats Friday night.

Dan Riffle, political advisor of Ocasio Cortez, responded to the tweet of the Democrat of the House saying: "To the person who will soon be dismissed behind this tweet, and I can not emphasize it too much …" with a screenshot of the recent film Pelosi instruction not to tweet about the other party members.

Chakrabarti responded to the Democrats of the House by remaining firm in his office. "All I had tweeted two weeks ago was to call the terrible border funding bill that was opposed by 90+ Dems." He was giving Trump a blank check to keep locking people into Terrible conditions: Our democracy is literally falling apart – without Twitter gaiters, "he said.