The Squad (United States Congress)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib are the four women elected to the House of Representatives in the 2018 elections. The term “Squad” arose from East Coast hip hop culture and describes a self-chosen group of people that you want to identify with. The group has been said to represent the demographic diversity of a younger political generation and the advocacy of progressive policies such as the Green New Deal.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib are the four women elected to the House of Representatives in the 2018 elections. The term “Squad” arose from East Coast hip hop culture and describes a self-chosen group of people that you want to identify with. The moniker has been used pejoratively by some Republicans, but the women use the term self-referentially to express solidarity among themselves and with supporters. The four women, known for their social media savvy, regularly publish selfies with captions like’sister love’ and ‘album dropping’ and defend each other’s policies and remarks. The group has been said to represent the demographic diversity of a younger political generation and the advocacy of progressive policies such as the Green New Deal, which have sometimes clashed with their party’s leadership. All are women of color under 50, have been supported by the Justice Democrats political action committee, and are on the left wing of the Democratic Party.
The average age of the Squad was 38. 3 years as of mid-2019, nearly two decades younger than the overall House average of 57. 6 years. Another photo of the three members got viral attention during Michael Cohen’s testimony during House Oversight Committee on July 14, 2019. On July 15, President Donald Trump tweeted that the members of the squad should ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came’ The next day, Laura Ingraham of Fox News called them ‘the four horsewomen of the apocalypse’ and called for them to’stay back and show us how it is done’ The term has also been used by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Dowd had used the term in an interview with House speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Squad has requested laib has requested with Pelosi, although without naming them collectively.
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