This particular Twitter spat started Thursday with AOC taking a shot at Project Veritas. Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe responded to that by pointing to a letter dated May in which he explained why he had decided to accept the loan, i.e. to protect the salaries of his 50 employees:
We did not CHOOSE to have our employees, working families, livelihoods jeopardized by @NYGovCuomo shutdown.
We operate without fear or favor. We Will NEVER bow to political pressure from you, NYState or the feds. We do not prostitute ourselves to a commercial imperative.#Gulagpic.twitter.com/rLHoFUdOrk
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 3, 2020
Of course, helping small businesses meet their payrolls is what the PPP loans were designed to do, but for AOC the desire to punish the right always takes precedence I guess. In any case, Sen. Marco Rubio responded to her tweet with this bit of advice:
Working together R’s & D’s helped save the jobs of 55 million Americans through PPP
Work more, tweet less & one day you too can make a difference https://t.co/WprW5OR9LP
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 3, 2020
These PPP loans were part of the CARES Act which was passed back in March. AOC denounced that bill on the House floor and then voted against it.
This article was sourced from Hot Air
