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대표. 일한 오마르, 디민., said in an interview that 민주당 will have “a cohort of progressives” who will try to influence 2020 presidential nominee 조 바이든 should he be elected.
Progressive 민주당 who endorsed former 2020 Democratic nominee Sen. 버니 샌더스, I-Vt. have been quiet in the criticism of Biden ahead of the next election but have suggested wanting to push the candidate, who is campaigning largely on moderate policy ideas, farther to the left.
“We will have a cohort of progressives that are very clear about their objectives for wanting the implementation of Medicare for All and a Green New Deal and raising the minimum wage and not allowing for fracking,” Omar 말했다 Monday in an interview with Axios.
Omar’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry about who the “cohort” will include.
She added that “there has been a level of responsiveness … to the policies that [progressives] are advocating for that [progressives] know will have not just a future in [바이든] 관리, but a future in the upcoming administrations after his.” Responsiveness “is a signal” for progressives “to push and to mobilize our base trying to accomplish these policy objectives,” 그녀가 말했다.
“As progressives, we have a clear understanding of what the inside and outside game is,” the congresswoman continued.
She would also be open to Biden’s decision to appoint any Republicans to his cabinet but fears danger if the administration pushes “policies that are contrary to what the Democratic platform is,” according to Axios.
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Omar and three other congresswomen, 담당자. 뉴욕의 알렉산드리아 오 카시오 코르테즈, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, refer to themselves as “The Squad” and represent a shift among younger Democrats in Congress toward more progressive ideologies. Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib endorsed Sanders’ campaign earlier this year.
대표. 알렉산드리아 오 카시오 코르테즈, D-N.Y., speaks as, 왼쪽에서, 대표. 라시다 틀 레브, D-me., 대표. 일한 오마르, 디민., and Rep. 아야나 프레슬리, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP 사진 / J. 스콧 애플 화이트)
The four legislators support the objectives Omar listed as priorities for the “cohort of progressives” she mentioned in the interview, including the Green New Deal, a ban on fracking and a $ 15 최저 임금. All four have also expressed support for packing the Supreme Court after Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Monday confirmation.
Biden has not expressed explicit support for the Green New Deal 또는 Medicare for All but has similar climate and health care plans; his website calls the Green New Deal a “crucial framework,” and he has said he plans on expanding ObamaCare to make it “BidenCare.” His stance on fracking and the oil industry has flip-flopped over the course of his campaign.
“나는 생각한다, 사무용 겉옷, we can likely push Vice President Biden in a more progressive direction across policy issues,” 여자 말했다 Just the News in a Sept. 15 회견. “I think foreign policy is an enormous area where we can improve; immigration is another one.”
Immigration is a key issue for Omar, the country’s first Somali woman to serve in Congress, in her Minneapolis district — home to one of the largest populations of Somali refugees in the country. Biden’s immigration plan includes increasing the number of U.S. annual refugee admissions to 125,000.
Ocasio-Cortez added that she thinks “it’s important to acknowledge” that she and Biden have, “일부 경우에, very large disagreements,” but that it does not mean she and other Democrats are trying “to undermine the party or undermine each other.”
“It means that we’re trying to do what’s best for people in the country,” she told Just the News.
