AOC Simply Breaks Down How ICE ‘Thugs’ Got So Much Money, And It’s Infuriating

Rep. and a massive reduction in the social safety net — including a more than $1 trillion cut to Medicaid. Billions of dollars are now instead going toward Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

“All that extra money that everybody’s paying right now in their premiums, all that extra money that you’re paying … nearly a trillion dollars in health care, was taken out and given to ICE,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“So, understand how these dots connect,” she continued. “You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. That is what this administration’s doing.”

Ocasio-Cortez was referencing 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week.

After Good’s slaying, the Department of Homeland Security characterized her as one of several “violent rioters” blocking ICE officers during a targeted operation. DHS claimed that Good had “weaponized her vehicle” in an attempt to run over an officer.

Yet videos of the incident indicate that Good was trying to leave the scene when the officer shot at her several times. As footage of the shooting emerged appearing to contradict the Trump administration’s account of what happened, protests erupted across the U.S.

After Ocasio-Cortez connected the financial hardships many Americans are experiencing right now with Good’s killing, some X users praised the simplicity of her message.

“Single best line of messaging I have ever seen from AOC,” one X user said. “run that in every state and she wins the general by 10 points.”

“Flawless messaging,” said another. “This should be the thesis statement of anti-Trump politics, compulsively repeated over and over again.”

“See how direct and short and simple her messages are?” another X user said. “The words hit.”