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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Gustaf Kilander

‘Left a little bit to be desired’: AOC calls out what more Biden could have said in State of the Union

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Progressive US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech “left a little to be desired”, adding that the president didn’t push hard enough to reduce student loan debt and that he came up short on issues such as immigration and energy.

“The piece on immigration was really just glossed over and we have over 10 – you know, anywhere between 10 to 13 million immigrants in this country that feel desperate for a path to citizenship,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC after the speech.

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