🔰Rep. Ocasio-Cortez - House Speaker Debacle & Creating a Path to Citizenship | The Daily Show

Always good to see you always good to see a bronce. I always good to see him. You can't just do that formal instruction How you been? I've been good. I mean, it's been a little you know, crazy been a while and it's been a wild time in Congress What's it ride been like for you because I see you on social media and you can be like, hey It's a sunny day and people like I hate you You know, it's not that different than the 6 train at midnight Got you, so, you know you get that practice right, but you still love what you do I do In fact, I think I love it now more than ever. Okay, I have to ask you about the house speaker debacle Yeah from the outside. I have no idea what's going in. Could you just really quickly explain it? So Republicans kicked out their speaker And now they can't find a new guy to run their group project and They're all like fighting with each other about it. Yeah now for a local in the Bronx, how does this affect them? So in terms of how this affects the Bronx, we've got a clock ticking on a government shutdown And if this gets us to a point of a government shutdown, I mean that's real, right? That's when we start seeing TSA and airports get affected. That's when people could potentially miss their checks, right? So this is something that's really important for everybody to make sure that we get that pressure on But also we need to make sure that we don't have people like Jim Jordan or extremists because whoever takes over the house could potentially put our democracy in danger when it comes to Certifying or recertifying an election and so on got you now You know people say Congress doesn't really get anything done right now because of the shutdown Well, what were you guys getting done before because I know you've been doing something That's an excellent question I Will say from when Republicans took over to now they provided a lot of meme content. Yes But before that when Democrats were in the majority we passed the largest climate package in American history we at $35 for people We made sure that you know when the pandemic went through we started the program of child tax credits Now we had some folks in the Senate shut that down But when we take back the Senate, we want to make sure that we re-establish and expand those programs back again, too I put some respect on my name. I feel you. All right So we just did a piece about the people running for house speaker. Who are you voting for? None of them I'll be casting my vote for Hakeem Jeffries Immigrants are the lifeblood of New York City our mayor Eric Adams. He said we can't handle anymore in here You represent one of the most diverse districts in Congress What can be done at a federal level to help? Well, here's the thing is that I think Whether from from all parts of the political spectrum one of the biggest issues that we have when it comes to immigration is the fact that we have an undocumented population Now you can fix that by trying to build a wall or you can fix that by trying to document people and create a path to citizenship That might say look at these systems, you know that our shelter system has weight and things like that But one of the reasons that our public systems experience weight is because people don't have a documented and reliable path to work and sustain themselves just like all of our ancestors did and our and our Grandparents and great-grandparents, you know, I always love when people talk about like, oh, well, you know my great-grandfather came and he wrote his name wrong on a book and now he's a citizen and Like can we put two and two together That our processes today are so difficult that they make our immigration process difficult but that doesn't mean that immigrants do not create a positive contribution to our country and our economy and our society and So the answer should really be we should make it easier to be legal documented and a citizen of the United States of America What was great talking to you, thank you for coming give it up for congresswoman