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The feud between New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, continues to play out on Twitter, with the latest blow coming from the left Thursday.

In an unusual attempt at unity, Cruz retweeted a message from Ocasio-Cortez regarding the latest development in the GameStop saga that has plagued Wall Street this week, creeping it’s way into Washington, D.C.

Ocasio-Cortez's home district residence is a Bronx apartment that was purchased in 1986 by her father, who died from cancer in 2008. She has lived there with her partner since graduating from. As a result, in Ocasio-Cortez’s district, one can take trips by car in 20 minutes that would take well over an hour by transit.

Ocasio-Cortez condemned the online trading platform Robinhood, after it restricted users on its app from trading GameStop shares, after the failing retailer saw an unprecedented uptick in its stock this week.

In an attempt to curb trading by small investors -- who some Wall Street veterans fear could destroy hedge funds -- Robinhood took steps to prevent its users from being able to trade freely and reversed the upward trend in GameStop stock value Thursday.

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'This is unacceptable,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. 'We now need to know more about [Robinhood’s] decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.'

Cruz threw his support behind the Democrat, retweeting the message and simply stating, 'Fully agree.'

But instead of acknowledging the rare occasion the two congressional lawmakers could actually find themselves in agreement on an issue, Ocasio-Cortez rebuffed the senator’s support, diverting the conversation to the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

'I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out,' Ocasio-Cortez shot back at Cruz.

'Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign,' she added.

The New York Democrat has held Cruz and other GOP lawmakers accountable for the breach on the U.S. Capitol after they propagated debunked allegations against the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.

The attack happened as lawmakers in the House and Senate separated to review and vote on the Electoral College results for states that some GOP lawmakers, including Cruz, objected to.

Videos that surfaced during and after the attack showed some of the pro-Trump supporters specifically targeting certain Democrats like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York Democrat has repeatedly called for Cruz’s resignation from office.

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Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made a big deal about not being able to afford rent in both New York City and Washington, D.C. She said that, without her $174,000 salary as a Congresswoman, she wouldn't be able to afford two apartments. She even had a celebrity chef offer to let the Congresswoman-elect to stay with his family until she got on her feet.

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Fast forward a couple months later and Ocasio-Cortez is now living in luxury apartments in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood, where rent for a studio apartment exceeds $2,000 a month, the Washington Free Beaconreported.

From the Free Beacon:

Her office pushed back against the notion that it was hypocritical for Ocasio-Cortez, who has made housing affordability one of her top policy concerns, to move into a luxury building. A spokesman pointed out that her office also uses a car with an 'internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels,' even though she thinks their use should be eliminated.

Many sympathized with Ocasio-Cortez's stated difficulty with finding an apartment in D.C., where rents have been on the rise in recent years. Affording a second residence in the capital has proven to be a challenge for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with some choosing to live together with colleagues or to bunk up in their congressional office as cost-saving measures.

According to the Free Beacon's report, AOC's father purchased her apartment building in 1986. She has reportedly lived in that apartment since 2011, when she graduated from Boston University.

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Records show the apartment building's mortgage was paid off in 2007 and AOC's father passed away in 2008. Despite what Ocasio-Cortez has said, she wasn't responsible for paying a mortgage. She was only responsible for paying monthly home-owner association fees and property taxes, something her office says costs the Congresswoman between $750 and $1,000 a month.

During her campaign, AOC frequently said she had to have multiple waitressing jobs in order to keep her family's apartment in the Bronx from being foreclosed upon. She also failed to mention that before her father passed away, he purchased a second home in Westchester. The Congresswoman also said her mother was forced to move to Florida because she could no longer afford to live in New York City.

The confusion was caused by Ocasio-Cortez, who avoided mentioning, before it was revealed by the Daily Mail, that her father had purchased a second residence—a three-bedroom home about 30 miles north of New York City in Westchester—where she moved as a young child.

Three days before the Daily Mail report, Ocasio-Cortez had made it seem in an interview with The Intercept that the Westchester home her mother lived in was in New York City.

'With my family we sold my childhood home,' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'My mother was forced to move to Florida because she could no longer afford to live in New York City, remain in New York City.'

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Things like this are what make average Americans angry. This is why so many are apathetic and feel jaded about politics. There have been far too many times when Americans think they found a politician who they can relate to and then it turns out her or she was lying. And their motivation was simple: they wanted to win an election.

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If AOC wants to live in luxury apartments, fine. But do us all a favor and stop preaching to everyone else about how we should spend our hard earned money, especially when you're not willing to put your own money where your mouth is.