Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could team up on another piece of legislation.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted last week that birth control should be available without a prescription. On Wednesday, the Texas senator said he agrees.
“A simple, clean bill making birth control available over the counter. Interested?” Cruz wrote to the New York congresswoman.
I agree. Perhaps, in addition to the legislation we are already working on together to ban Members of Congress from becoming lobbyists, we can team up here as well. A simple, clean bill making birth control available over the counter. Interested? https://t.co/7kh3kqxN1w
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 12, 2019
The unlikely duo have already agreed to work on a bill to ban former members of Congress from becoming paid lobbyists.
Ocasio-Cortez called their alliance “super bizarre” in an interview with The Young Turks last week. “Really weird. Never thought in my life that one of my first pushes would be alongside Ted Cruz,” she said.
“It really shows what the true spirit of not being partisan is, in that bipartisanship doesn’t mean, ‘Let’s come together to go to war and lower taxes on the rich,'” she said. “But bipartisanship means, ‘OK, I will swallow all of my distaste in this situation because we have found a common interest. And common cause, I think, can transcend bipartisanship, and I think that’s the way that we should go.”
