Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has warned the Democratic party’s Wall Street donors of an “out and out brawl” if Lina Khan, the antitrust progressive who chairs the Federal Trade Commission, is removed from her post.
Ocasio-Cortez, the influential star of the party’s leftwing, suggested billionaires had been putting pressure on Kamala Harris to axe Khan if the Democratic candidate defeats Donald Trump to win the White House in November.
“Let me make this clear, since billionaires have been trying to play footsie with the ticket: Anyone goes near Lina Khan and there will be an out and out brawl. And that is a promise,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on X.