AOC makes excuses for rollout of GND

Or at least the original version of the GND that Ocasio-Cortez released earlier last month called for that. In response to the backlash that promptly ensued, she retracted the original version and claimed it'd been released by accident. She repeated this argument Friday.

"What I will say is that I definitely have a staffer that had a very bad day at work and we did release a working draft early," she said. "So I get that’s what they’re seizing on. But really what we need to do is have a serious conversation and even in those draft versions, what they were talking about and is really about the fact that we need to innovate on our technology."