Ocasio-Cortez: ‘If Republicans wanted to avert a shutdown, they can’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday put the onus on Republicans to avert the looming government shutdown.“Everybody knows that Donald Trump is president, that Republicans have the Senate and Republicans have the House,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “They have the keys to the entire United States government,” she added. “And if Republicans wanted to avert a shutdown, they can … If they need Democrati