Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez chew out House Dems who vote with the GOP in tense closed-door meeting: report
Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA, left, via Gage Skidmore) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -D-NY, right, via Lev Radin Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez chew out House Dems who vote with the GOP in tense closed-door meeting: report House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tore into fellow Democrats for voting with the GOP on procedural votes during an emotional closed-door session Thursday. Politico reported that Pelosi warned moderate members of the caucus that they could lose financial support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee if they kept voting with the opposite side of the aisle. The move came after an embarrassing moment in which Republicans tacked onto a universal background check for firearm purchases bill an amendment that would send Immigration and Customs Enforcement updates when undocumented immigrants buy guns. Twenty-six Democrats voted with the GOP on the amendment and it passed with the ICE language, “spoiling an important Democratic legislative achievement,” Politico re