AOC Slams House Republicans For Supporting Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Bill 'In Exchange For Some Signed Merch': 'Voting To Starve Babies'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a "conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the" bill only to walk out with "signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill."

The article went on to quote a White House official saying Trump repeatedly told holdouts "don't give the Democrats a win."

AOC mocked the lawmakers, saying they voted for "cuts to *every single American* on SNAP in exchange for some signed merch." "Voting to starve babies. The disabled. The poor. And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?"

The Democratic lawmaker has been slamming different Republicans as the bill gets close to being passed. Earlier on Thrsday she criticized Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for criticizing Trump's bill despite voting in favor of it.

"This isn't about you. This is about the 17 million Americans whose health insurance you're taking away. And after you turned your back on them to vote "YES", you said your fellow House GOP should vote NO. Americans are going to suffer. YOU admit that. And YOU supported it," the lawmaker said in a social media publication.

AOC was responding to a July 1 post by Murkowski, whose vote was uncertain until the very end in the Senate. Her support for the bill ended up being crucial, considering the final vote was a 50-50 tie and Vice President JD Vance ended up casting the deciding vote to send the bill to the Lower House.

Murkowski published a lengthy post after the Senate vote, saying it was "one of the hardest" during her time in the Senate. She said that she worked to "improve the present bill for Alaska" but its iteration is "not good enough for the rest of our nation."

The bill cleared a key hurdle in the House in the early hours of Thursday after a lengthy standoff with Republican holdouts. House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to sway four of the five lawmakers who had voted against a procedural "rule" vote and the eight who had not voted.