Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said she raised $2 million for Texas relief organizations working to help people suffering from a deadly winter storm this week. She said she's also planning to visit Houston.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raises $2 million for Texas relief after deadly winter weather
By Kelly Hayes
Long lines form outside Texas grocery store amid winter storm power outages
A long line formed outside a supermarket in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, February 16, after storms caused widespread power outages across the state.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday raised $2 million for Texas relief organizations working to help people suffering from a deadly winter storm that crippled the state’s power grid and left many without safe drinking water.
The Democratic representative from New York said she is also planning to visit Houston this weekend.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) late Thursday raised $1 million for Texas relief organizations that are working to help the people suffering from the record-setting winter storm, and said she will make a trip to Houston this weekend."$1M raised in direct relief for Texans in less than a day," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "As a thank you to everyone who contributed & amplified, I'll be going to Texas this weekend to visit w/ @LaCongresista.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched an ActBlue campaign to help freezing Texans which has hauled in more than $1 million as of last night.
The funds raised by AOC were split between “The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, Ending Community Homeless Coalition (ECHO), Family Eldercare, Houston Food Bank,
and Feeding Texas,” organizations “working around the clock to assist houseless, hungry and senior Texans in Travis and Dallas County, and beyond.”
As Bryan Tyler Cohen noted on Twitter: “The Senator from Texas saw a crisis and escaped to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun. Meanwhile, a congresswoman from New York – whom that TX Senator regularly uses as a punching bag – just raised a million dollars for Texans. One party works for you. The other works for themselves.”