Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is challenging President Donald Trump to release his college transcript to show who was the better student after he attacked her intelligence on national TV.
On Thursday, she shared a clip from an interview Trump did on Fox Business earlier in the day where he said she was a âpoor studentâ and ânot even a smart person.â
âAOC was a poor student. I wonât say where she went to school it doesnât matter. This is not even a smart person, other than sheâs got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps,â he said.
That prompted Ocasio-Cortez to issue her challenge, âLetâs make a deal, Mr. President: You release your college transcript, Iâll release mine, and weâll see who was the better student.â
âLoser has to fund the Post Office,â she added.
Congressional Democrats have raised concerns that without adequate funding, the U.S. Postal Service will fail to handle the surge in mail-in ballots expected to be cast in the upcoming election.
During that same interview, Trump fueled concerns that he was trying to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election. He said, â want $25 billion for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it could take all of these millions and millions of ballots.â
âNow, in the meantime, they arenât getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they donât get those two items, that means you canât have universal mail-in voting, because theyâre not equipped to have it,â he added.
Later in the interview, he said, âNow, if we donât make a deal, that means they donât get the money. That means they canât have universal mail-in voting ⌠They just canât have it. So, you know, sort of a crazy thing.â
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently accused Trump of trying to undermine the Postal Service, as IJR reported.
In a tweet, she called on Congress to âshore up the USPS so everyone can continue to receive the essential supplies they need, and so as many Americans as possible can safely vote from home.â
Highlighting the financial troubles the agency is facing, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy warned that without âdramatic change,â his agency will face âface an impending liquidity crisis.â
