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Ocasio-Cortez questioning CEO about bank ‘caging children’ falls flat

While questioning the CEO of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the bank of being “involved in the caging of children.”

The hearing on Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee was created by Democrat Chairwoman Maxine Waters, which was titled, “Holding Megabanks Accountable: An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Pattern of Consumer Abuses.”

Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan was the first “megabank” chief summoned by Waters to appear before the committee to answer questions about how the bank operates.

But Ocasio-Cortez had other ideas, and used a major chunk of her time to push her political agenda against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and awkwardly accused the bank of being complicit in “caging children.”

Read the full story from The American Mirror


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