AOC: Biden Cabinet's Diversity of Ideas Makes for 'Hazy' Vision

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is a big proponent of diversity, just apparently not when it comes to political ideology.

She has a problem with the diversity of ideas in Joe Biden's Cabinet selections, suggesting they all need to be of the same mind because "the overall vision" is "little hazy."

"I think it'd be great to see a more cohesive vision across the entire Cabinet," AOC told reporters Wednesday, per Politico Playbook. "You have an individual appointment here, an individual appointment there.

"We can wrestle about whether they are bold enough or ambitious enough, especially given the uncertainty and what kind of Senate we're going to have.

"But aside from that, I think one of the things I'm looking for, when I see all of these picks together is: What is the agenda? What is the overall vision going to be? I think that's a little hazy."

AOC has been a vocal leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and has pushed Biden to place more Cabinet members who think like her. Biden, though, has kept AOC at arm's length and she was not given a slot at the Democratic National Committee Convention in August.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., did invite her introduce him as the runner-up in the primary, but she was given just a minute and a half to speak. She also called out Biden's efforts to reach out to never-Trump Republicans to speak at the DNCC.

"I'm trying to read into, I guess like many other people, what is the overall message from the big picture in this entire Cabinet put together?" AOC told reporters, per Politico. "And what is the agenda for it, because we have a person who has a more conservative history, that's one thing, but what is the mission that they are being given in their individual agency, whether it's Transportation, Defense, OMB, etc.?

"What is the mandate here? And, yeah, I just think that's something that we’re looking to see is, it's something that I hope will be pushed."

Georgia's Senate runoff TV ads have frequently quoted AOC as making a call for Democrats to win the Senate majority "so we don't have to negotiate."

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