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Democrat from NY

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York's 14th Congressional district.

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Misunderstanding the data

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"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, December 3rd, 2018

Misreads the campaign disclosures

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In her defeat of Republican Rep. Karen Handel, Democratic challenger Lucy McBath "was outspent 5-1."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Total budget straight from military's wish list

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"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

This ratio won't leave you out in the cold

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In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Wrong on several counts

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"Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018

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Explaining Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70 percent marginal tax rate idea

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had barely been sworn in before she attracted widespread attention for floating significantly higher maximum tax rates on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Let’s take a closer look at what she said, and what it could mean.