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Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:52 AM Thursday

'They need to pick up the phone': AOC, Sanders on efforts to end the Congress stalemate



Oct 15, 2025 #CNN #News
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized negotiations to end the government shutdown, saying that Republicans “need to pick up a phone.”

“They need to pick up a phone, Katilan. They need to pick up a phone,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday, dismissing Speaker Mike Johnson’s argument that Democrats must accept a clean continuing resolution passed by House Republicans last month.
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