House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four progressive House Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are having a bitter feud. It teaches us a lot about growing splits within the Democratic Party and how Pelosi is using her power to shut down dissent within her party.
It started when the "squad," consisting of Ocasio-Cortez, and fellow freshman Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., used Twitter to bitterly attack Pelosi’s role last month in passing a $4.6 billion bill that included more money for border security. Pelosi’s sin was not only that she sent President Trump a bill he could sign, but that she supposedly enabled Border Patrol "child abusers" and opponents of open borders.