Oh, to be a politician

This is now:

AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped almost $50,000 on hotels and meals in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of this year — as well as renting a San Juan venue where she was caught on tape grooving at an August Bad Bunny concert.

AOC’s principal campaign committee shelled out $680.52 on July 28 to stay at the lavish Hotel Palacio Provincial, along with another $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and a whopping $9,440,79 on Sept. 29, according to third quarter federal campaign finance filings.

And this was just a few short years ago, just before the poor struggling barista took office:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: To pay off student loans I had to do something that was nearly impossible — get elected to Congress

She’s exceptional in so many ways, but like many other Americans her age, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has student loans. 

According to her 2018 financial disclosure, the Congresswoman is paying off between $15,000 and $50,000 in student loans. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez referenced her student loan balance during a press conference introducing the College for All Act. Sponsored by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Senator Bernie Sanders, the bill aims to eliminate “all $1.6 trillion in student debt for 45 million Americans.”

“I have student loans, too,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. “I think it’s so funny, a year ago, I was waiting tables in a restaurant and it was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is to pay off my student loan debt.”

She continued that “in order for me to get a chance to have healthcare, in order for me to get a chance to pay off my student loans, I had to do something that was nearly impossible. And I don’t think that that is the bar through which a person should be able to access education, healthcare and a bevy of other things that should be considered human rights.”

And then there’s the Lightbringer’s own struggles:

…. Former President Barack Obama has also previously spoken about how he and the former first lady were paying off student debt well into their 40s.

“We each graduated from college and law school with a mountain of debt. And even though we got good jobs, we barely finished paying it off just before I was elected to the U.S. Senate,” Obama told an audience in Buffalo, New York. “I mean, I was in my 40s when we finished paying off our debt. And we should have been saving for Malia and Sasha by that time.”

The Obamas, you’ll be relieved to know, had already amassed a net worth of $1.3 during Barry’s brief stint as a senator, and today they own four mansions around the country and enjoy a net worth of between $70 and $125 million. No word whether they’ve ever repaid their student loans.