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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    United States Representative from New York since 2019

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  2. Sep 27, 2023 · As Reuters previously reported in August 2022, Ocasio-Cortez's financial disclosures showed that she was far from being a millionaire, much less a multi-millionaire. (Her campaign website ...

    • The Claim: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Worth More Than $1 Million
    • AOC’s Net Worth
    • Political Fundraising Takes Off
    • Our Ruling: False
    • Our Fact-Check Sources

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has supported raising the minimum wage, forgiving student loan debt and increasing taxes for the wealthy. Now, in recent social media posts, Facebook users are raising questions about the New York congresswoman’s personal wealth. In a post shared more than 14,000 times, a Facebook user claims that Ocasio-Corte...

    Ocasio-Cortez’s story of bartender-turned-congresswoman after upending an incumbent Democrat in a safely blue New York district is well documented. Through most of her 20s, Ocasio-Cortez “lived paycheck to paycheck,” according to Time. When she took office in 2019, Ocasio-Cortez reported in her first financial disclosurethat she had a checking acco...

    While financial disclosures show that Ocasio-Cortez’s personal wealth has not skyrocketed during her time in Congress, her political fundraising has taken off alongside her national profile, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. During the 2020 election cycle, Ocasio-Cortez’s reelection campaign spent $17.3 million after raking in $21....

    We rate the claim that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has racked up more than $1 million in net worth as a member of Congress FALSE, based on our research. In her most recent financial disclosure, filed in September 2020, Ocasio-Cortez reported between $2,003 and $31,000 in assets, compared with student loan debt of between $15,000 and $50,000.

    The New York Times, June 27, 2018, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star"
    Time, March 21, 2019, "'Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise"
    U.S. House of Representatives, accessed March 9, 2018 financial disclosure for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    USA TODAY, Sept. 10, 2019, "AOC makes student loan payment during congressional hearing on student loans"
  3. Mar 24, 2023 · AOC Is Worth $200,000. She earns at least $174,000 per year for her Congressional salary and has a net worth of $200,000, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She’s not rich, but she didn’t rely...

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  4. Aug 16, 2022 · Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that Ocasio-Cortez has a net worth of $29 million. Her most recent financial disclosure shows her with assets between $3,003 and $45,000,...

  5. Mar 6, 2024 · Reuters also found no evidence to support a claim in 2022 that Ocasio-Cortez had a net worth of $29 million. The congresswoman addressed the claim in 2022, citing the Reuters fact-check...

  6. At just 28 and with no prior office, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez primaried long-term Congressman and Democratic power-player Joe Crowley with a landslide 57.5-percent of the vote in New York's...

  7. Aug 9, 2022 · Forbes has denied releasing the $29 million figure and no other reliable source for the claim has been cited. Ocasio-Cortez’s most recent financial disclosure, filed in 2021, shows she had...

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