'Excuse Me, That Is Incorrect': Bank CEO Pushes Back On AOC Claim During Hearing

At last week's House Finance Committee hearing, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questioned bank CEOs about their refusal to forgive Paycheck Protection Program loans.

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[saintjay]

She spent 5 minutes asking the one guy the same question and he actually answered her the first time. Why didn't she get interrupted and asked to move on like a Conservative rep asking questions that actually get filibustered and not answered would have been?!? She gets to waste time reasking answered questions and Conservatives get shut down trying to get a simple yes or no answer!!

[josephtalmadge]

The fact that anyone would even listen to AOC at this point is absolute pure insanity

[durbanbudz]

She is always "having a tough time"...what a clown and a huge disrespect to the office "she" holds.

[joeb]

Aoc is an embarrassment to all bartenders ...

[BurdenofTheMighty]

It’s like somebody took the most radical sorority girl, who is the living definition of ‘young people think they know everything’, and threw her into congress

[garyowens]

The fact that people voted for this woman should scare us all.

[chefnstrike]

Why isn’t she paying back her own student loans? She makes way more then acceptable to pay it back.

[_ArsNova]

The entire interaction feels like a child questioning a roomful of adults.

[PercentNeanderthal]

How this woman is in Congress and not mixing drinks in a college bar where she belongs is beyond me. The people in her district deserve what they get.

[noobandfriends]

So bank CEO is told they've opted out of some "portal" to assumedly help them process the repayments. CEO says they're pretty much done with 95% of the process. AOC then is still confused why they opted out. This woman, as "brilliant" as she is, would strip me of every single one of my rights and take all of my property if given the chance. I cannot believe we've allowed such people to be in charge of us.

[russty]

The fact that maxi waters is a chair person is absolutely discussing!

[storehouseads]

It is amazing that if she would have just sat there and said nothing she would have been more affective. How can someone say so much and say nothing at all?

[molokoplus]

They are looking at her like she is an immature child who is only making a fool of herself. That anyone takes her seriously is absolutely mind blowing.

[joe.oneill]

Geez, AOC not understanding finance, what a shock. Maybe if she put her "they make me look smart" glasses on?

[thepunisher]

AOC vs A CEO of a Bank? This is comedy 🤣

[bbkr]

one of the saddest parts of watching this is the realization that many young people look up to her as someone who "takes on the big banks and corporate greed", when in reality she hardly has even a sophomoric understanding of any economics

[barryh]

I have to believe that these bankers are thinking to themselves, “Why in the hell am I here being questioned by this squeaky idiot?”

[beetalius]

She’s a child with a child’s understanding of how the world works. Even with her staffers propping her up.

[kingmarviemarv]

Listening to AOC talk is like hearing fingernails going across a blackboard. AOC and Karine Jean-Pierre are the two most incompitent people in government today. This is what afirmative action gets you.

[justinsane]

Watching AOC do politics feels like if I was a senator and brought my 7 year old girl to work and all of a sudden people just started to act like she was the one with authority for shits and giggles