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AOC’s student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg-freezing journey

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.

The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.

The “Tax the Rich!” pol reported less than $81,000 in total assets.

Recently, Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that she’d been saving up for some time instead to freeze her eggs, a process that can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 per cycle.

Yeah, well, she seems to have no problem having cars and a nice apartment in DC and NYC and all the clothes and eyeglasses and jewelry and so much more. We all know the graft money is there, she’s just better at hiding it. Though, it is interesting that someone with a degree in economics is probably only paying the minimum on the student loans. Not that she understands economics to start with

The “Squad” Democrat has consistently backed student debt cancellation. During former President Joe Biden’s term, she even pushed the 46th commander-in-chief to cancel as much as $50,000 in debt per student borrower. But she’s not the only US lawmaker who’s still holding student loans.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has held up to $50,000 over the past eight years in student debt — despite her net worth ballooning for a time to as much as $30 million due to her husband’s winery and venture capital businesses.

Why would she want to repay a debt when she can try and get the government to do that?

Early in his term, Biden expressly rejected writing off up to $50,000 in outstanding student loan debt, earning AOC’s ire.

“Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. This is wrong,” she said in February 2021. “Nowhere does it say we must trade-off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness. We can have both.”

This is the Democrat way: give easy loans for college, then have the colleges Democrats run raise the costs, then not teach the Yutes how loans work and how to pay them off, offer degrees that are mostly worthless in the jobs market, heck, push the kiddies to get them, and then tell those same Yutes to demand the government pay those loans off.

Good questions. But, really, members of Congress will almost never go after each other, regardless of Party, when it comes to the Money.

Do have to throw some respect to AOC for getting a bit thicker, rather than taking Ozempic and looking like a hollowed out person like so many celebs.