Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exposes her extreme ignorance by falsely claiming, “Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just said:
“Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase”
I immediately knew that couldn’t possibly be true, because the entire budget of the military is approximately that amount.
So I did some googling, and came up with this CNBC article from last year, which is titled
“Senate passes $700 billion defense policy bill, backing Trump call for steep increase in military spending”
So it’s just as I had thought. The $700 billion does not represent the increase. Instead, it represents the total military budget.
Ocasio-Cortez was either deliberately lying when she said the $700 billion was an increase, or she has an incredibly extreme ignorance of the federal budget.
I don’t think she was deliberately lying.
Instead, I think she is extremely ignorant about the numbers in the federal budget.
And this is the person that the Democrats nominated to run for the U.S. Congress, in a district which is so heavily blue that she is almost guaranteed to win?
Hilarious!
