Ocasio-Cortez’s critics also pounced on the Times report and accused the Democrat Online Cigarettes Store USA of being a hypocrite for splashing out on her hair while taking a stand against income inequality. The Times also contrasted her cut and color to Jeff Sessions’s reportedly thrifty trim, and suggested she should have saved money by visiting the House barber.
“She could get a cheap haircut and give the rest away to those in need,”
Now the congresswoman, who turns 30 next week, is pushing back against the uproar. On Thursday, she interrupted her visit to Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit to call out the “right-wing” for fixating on her hair rather Newport Pleasure than tackling poverty.
She credited Democratic socialist policies for advancing “prosperity for working people,” sassily adding that critics are ‘just mad we look good doing it.”
“I wonder if Republicans care about corruption as much as they care about a woman’s Newport 100s Box cut and color,” she added in a follow-up tweet which referenced Vice President Mike Pence’s own expenses.