House Democrats Target AOC’s Chief of Staff After He Attacked Native American Lawmaker

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on stage during the 2019 Athena Film Festival in New York City on March 3, 2019. Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Athena Film Festival

House Democrats attacked the chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) late July 12, the latest split on the left that highlights established lawmakers’ growing impatience with radical freshman representatives.

Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti wrote in late June that Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) was helping enable “a racist system.”