Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez Hold Closed Door Meeting Amid Growing Intra-Party Tensions

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington on July 26, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) held a closed-door meeting on July 26 in a bid to resolve their differences and recent tensions between moderate and progressive lawmakers in the Democratic Party.

Pelosi confirmed the meeting in a post on Twitter, saying that the two lawmakers “sat down to discuss working together to meet the needs of our districts and our country, fairness in our economy and diversity in our country.”