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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. Hands Tax Cuts To Wealthy While Housing Cuts Leave Kids With Lead Poisoning, Sewage in Apartments

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York argued that it was time for the U.S. to address the impact of more than two decades of public housing cuts, which she said had left children in her district with lead poisoning and asthma problems, and decried the government handing out tax cuts to corporations “and the exceedingly wealthy.”

Questioning a panel of experts during a House Committee on Financial Services Committee hearing on the state of housing in America, Ocasio-Cortez asked Adrianne Todman, CEO of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, whether she agreed that trying to make repairs to a home “after 20 years of neglect” would ultimately be “much more expensive to repair at the end of that 20 years than if you just invest in routine maintenance.” To continue reading, click the link below:

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-us-hands-tax-cuts-wealthy-while-housing-cuts-leave-1411045