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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Republicans attacking Bowman but backing Santos should ‘check values’, AOC says

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘They [Republicans] are filing a motion to expel a member who, in a moment of panic, was trying to escape a vestibule? Give me a break.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Republicans calling for action against the New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in a congressional office building as a vote loomed on a deal to avoid a government shutdown should “check their own values”, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, citing the lack of action against a GOP New Yorker, George Santos, after he was indicted for fraud.

“They are protecting someone who has lied to the American people, lied to the United States House of Representatives, lied to congressional investigators,” Ocasio-Cortez, widely known as AOC, told CNN’s State of the Union.

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