Economy
‘You almost had me murdered’: AOC doesn’t want Cruz to join bipartisan push to investigate Robinhood
Amid controversy surrounding the financial app Robinhood, progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have agreed that Congress needs to look into the app’s decision to prevent retail investors from freely buying stocks while hedge funds still can.
“This is unacceptable. We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted shortly before noon Thursday. “As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.”
The self-described democratic socialist was retweeting a report and thread from the outlet Motherboard that Robinhood has stopped users from purchasing stock in GameStop, AMC, Blackberry, and Nokia, saying that “more than half of all Robinhood users own at least some GameStop stock.” These users are now “unable to freely trade it” and “the app is only allowing users to close out their positions.”
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Cruz retweeted Bronx and Queens congresswoman, simply saying: “Fully agree.”
While saying to Cruz she is “happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground,” Ocasio-Cortez also told the Texas Republican: “but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.”
“Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed,” she added. “In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.”
Ocasio-Cortez is referring to Cruz being one of the Republicans who was spearheading the effort to challenge the states’ Electoral College votes on January 6, when Congress tallied them and certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, believing allegations of election fraud. That day, a mob of Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol to prevent certification and to “stop the steal.” Other Democrats in Congress have called for the resignation of Cruz as well as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who also helped lead the effort.
Midday on Thursday, while Ocasio-Cortez and Cruz were exchanging tweets, a class action complaint was filed against Robinhood in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Also on the same day of this back-and-forth between the two, former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and fellow “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are also agreeing with the two about Robinhood.
“It took less than a day for big tech, big government and the corporate media to spring into action and begin colluding to protect their hedge fund buddies on Wall Street,” Trump Jr. tweeted Thursday morning. “This is what a rigged system looks like, folks!”
Trump Jr. was retweeting an article from the founder of pop-culture site Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, criticizing Robinhood.
Tlaib retweeted the same Motherboard thread as Ocasio-Cortez—though prior to the New York congresswoman—saying: “This is beyond absurd. @FSCDems need to have a hearing on Robinhood’s market manipulation. They’re blocking the ability to trade to protect Wall St. hedge funds, stealing millions of dollars from their users to protect people who’ve used the stock market as a casino for decades.”
Replying to the popular finance-centric social media account “litquidity” pointing out that this odd assortment of political figures agrees with each other, Trump Jr. said: “Seriously…. I’m going long on Flying Pigs…”
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More Democrat leaders from non-border states are wising up to the immigration crisis our nation faces. Woburn mayor Scott Galvin, of the progressive state of Massachusetts, is hoping that lawmakers will overturn a 40-year-old law because the reality of being “bleeding heart liberals” is resulting in the demise of his town.
The 40-year-old “right-to-shelter” law has got to go, says mayor Galvin, because of the immense strain the thousands of migrant families are putting on the area’s residents. By Friday, there were about 150 families living in the city’s hotels, an “unsustainable” arrangement for his 40,000 constituents.
Galvin told the New York Times the right-to-shelter law, which only exists in Massachusetts, was “passed at a different time, and was not meant to cover what we’re seeing now.”
National Review reports:
Under the 1983 right-to-shelter law, Massachusetts officials are legally required to offer housing to any homeless families seeking shelter in the state. The law now covers a rising influx of migrant families, although individuals are not covered under its provisions.
“We’re going above and beyond, while some communities around us are not being impacted, and we don’t have endless capacity in our schools,” said Galvin. “The benefits that are bestowed on migrants make the state a very attractive destination, and without some changes, this challenge is not going to abate.”
Massachusetts Democrat Governor Maura Healey already declared a state of emergency on August 8th, requesting help from the federal government. On August 31, Healey activated up to 250 Massachusetts National Guard members to assist the more than 6,000 migrant families already in the state’s shelter system.
Approximately 6,300 families are living in emergency shelters and hotels across the state, up roughly 50 percent from the year prior. The cost for such accommodations for all the migrants is approximately $45 million per month, National Review reports.
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