Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rebuked a reporter for asking if Republicans should negotiate with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to end the ongoing government shutdown on Wednesday.

After being asked if she was going to primary Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and whether she believes he has decided to shut down the government because he’s worried about such a challenge on MSNBC Tuesday night, Ocasio-Cortez replied:

This is so not about me in this moment. This is about people being able to insure their children. And I will say, because I saw some senators speculating about this, and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, “Oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it’s because of AOC.”

Well, if that’s the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly, because what I’m not going to do is tolerate four million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance

That’s what’s not gonna happen. And so if those senators think that we’re having a shutdown because of me, they’re free to enter my office and negotiate, because what we’re not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. So, come strike a deal with me, if that’s what you really think is going on.

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