Play on. The battle between House of Representatives President Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) And Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) with her progressive "squad" continued with full force this weekend . Now, the representative Ilhan Omar (D-Min.) Tweeted that she "does not regret that Pelosi is" salty "about" The WHO holds the power to change "the public opinion and to have an impact on the future of the Democratic Party.
Omar jumped into the fray on Sunday in a tweet at Ocasio-Cortez, in which Omar called his colleague "sis".
Omar was responding to AOC's complaint after a Pelosi search in an article published Saturday by columnist Maureen Dowd of The New York Times. Pelosi rejected the women – as well as the women of the new Congressman, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts – as a small team with no real support for Congress.
"All these people have [is] their audience and their Twitter world, "said Pelosi.
Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter: "This audience, no matter, is called public sentiment. And using the power to change this is the way we are actually achieving meaningful change in this country. "
The latest tensions between Pelosi and the women's group erupted on Friday when an Ocasio-Cortez spokesman was quoted in a Washington Post editorial, saying that "the biggest threat to the US" is the "death threat". humanity is the cowardice of the Democratic Party ".
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on the left, and DN.Y., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., In the center, go down the steps of the House to take a group photo of the Democratic woman member of the 116th Eastern Congress. Front Capitol Plaza on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, January 4, 2019, at the opening of the 116th Congress. Also on the photo, representative Dina Titus, D-Nev., Right. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)
FEATURE – On this February 27, 2019, photo archive, committee members, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Right, and Representative Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Left, listen to the testimony of Michael Cohen, President Donald Former Trump attorney, before the House of Representatives 'Capitol Hill House of Representatives' Monitoring and Reform Committee in Washington. Activists hoping to defeat House Democrats at next year's primaries with more diverse and progressive candidates say the resounding success they enjoyed last year with the victory of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked a new concern. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
US – FEBRUARY 07: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., left, and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Attend a rally on the Eastern Front of the Capitol to call on Congress to defer the date. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday, February 7, 2019. (Photo by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call)
Representatives Ilhan Omar, left, and Rashida Tlaib, right, listen to President Donald Trump deliver his speech on the state of the Union at a joint congressional session at Capitol Hill, at Washington, DC, February 5, 2019. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
The Representative, Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Listened to the testimony of Russell Vought, Acting Director of the Office of Budgetary Management and Budget, before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, March 12. 2019, at a hearing devoted to the fiscal year 2020. (Photo AP / Susan Walsh)
Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Replies to the call, while House Watch and Reform Committee votes 24-15 to hold Attorney General, William Barr, and Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to hand over documents regarding the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in Capitol Hill, Washington on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (Photo AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
FEATURE – In this archival photo from 1 October 2018, Boston City Councilwoman Ayanna Pressley speaks at a rally at the Boston City Hall. On November 6, Pressley became the first black woman in Massachusetts to be elected to the US House of Representatives. (AP Photo / Mary Schwalm, File)
REPORT – On this January 17, 2019 photo, Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Speaks at a press conference at Capitol Hill, Washington. On Monday, May 13, the Democrats defended Tlaib after President Donald Trump and his allies misinterpreted the Holocaust to accuse him of anti-Semitism. Tlaib told a Yahoo News podcast that she felt "appeased" by thinking of the suffering of her Palestinian ancestors since the creation of the state of Israel. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik, File)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Is preparing to do a television interview on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 27, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., S & D with other guests before the funeral service of former representative John Dingell, Thursday, February 14, 2019 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington. Dingell, who represented southeastern Michigan for 59 years in the House of Representatives, died last week at the age of 92. (Photo AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., on the left, examines her notes in the testimony of Michael Cohen, former lawyer for President Donald Trump, before the House of Representatives' Monitoring and Reform Committee of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Wednesday February 27, 2019 Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Right, sits next to Ocasio-Cortez. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Speaks at the Essence 2019 Festival at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Saturday, July 6, 2019 in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris / Invision / AP)
REPORT – In this November 14, 2018, photo archive, Ayanna Pressley, elected Republican, adjusts her coat after posing with other members of the class of freshmen of Congress for a photo shoot of group at Capitol Hill, Washington. He is known as the "Theater Committee" for his leading role in the theater, investigating President Donald Trump's White House. And now, five of the most ferocious new Democrat students in the House are playing on this stage. (AP Photo File / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
The Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, in the center, joined left by the representative, Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Announces a bill to cancel all the student debts, at the Capitol at Washington, June 24, 2019 Sanders has described the debt burden of Canadian students as absurd to condemn an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime debt for the crime of doing what is right. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., speaks at a press conference with Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, president, to demand that a law rescind all debts of the United States. On Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
From left to right, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., Representative Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. And Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Respond to the call when the House Monitoring and Reform Committee will vote 24 -15 to sentence Attorney General William Barr and the US Secretary of State to Commerce, Wilbur Ross, in contempt for failing to hand over subpoenas reporting on the Trump administration 's decision to add a citizenship issue to the 2020 census in Capitol Hill, Washington , Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., Listening during an Interrogation at a House Monitoring and Reform Committee Hearing on Face Recognition Technology in Government, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at Capitol Hill, Washington. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
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The new source of friction is the clash around Pelosi's decision to support the Senate's Border Financing Bill – instead of the House's version – even though he did not have any guarantees in place. humanitarian aid for detained immigrants, in particular children.
Pelosi told Dowd that it was the strongest bill she could get and said that congressional pregnant women needed to be realistic.
Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff at Ocasio-Cortez, also took part in the action this weekend, calling Pelosi's attacks on his young Democrat colleagues "disconcerting." " foiled by the Republicans"On the border bill.
He also wondered what is so busy with Pelosi's time that she can not initiate proceedings against Donald Trump. "What does this legislative brain?" He asked.
Pelosi has not replied to Omar or Chakrabarti yet. She did, however, invite the US Women's National Team on Capitol Hill to celebrate victory "inspiring" players in the World Cup.
Ocasio-Cortez was the first to send an invitation to the House of Representatives last month to co-captain Megan Rapinoe, after the midfielder's star declared that she would not accept any invitation to the "fucking White House". Rapinoe replied to the AOC: "Consider that it's done! "
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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