I’ve been trying to give AOC a fair shake, but this is like something a cab driver told Tom Friedman or Jacob Wohl overheard in a hipster coffee shop. The first missing paycheck hasn’t happened yet.

I just had a furloughed worker come visit me in my office.

“I work for HUD,” he said. “My family is hurting now that I’m three weeks without a paycheck,”

“but please - please don’t give into a wall. I don’t want the political tool of withholding my paycheck to be legitimized.”

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) January 8, 2019