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AO Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Democratic U.S. Representative for New York's 14th District, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens.

“Speaker Johnson doesn’t have the pen on executive orders. … So if he wants to try to pass some legislation and whip his entire Republican caucus into doing that, I mean, that’s well within his power and his right. I don’t think that’s going to pass, though.”

Ask a Pol drugs · December 2025

“Speaker Johnson doesn’t have the pen on executive orders. … So if he wants to try to pass some legislation and whip his entire Republican caucus into doing that, I mean, that’s well within his power and his right. I don’t think that’s going to pass, though.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Mike Johnson, Ask a Pol drugs

Context

Said by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Ask a Pol's Matt Laslo on December 12, 2025, just off the House floor. Laslo had told her that Speaker Johnson was reported to oppose President Trump's expected order moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III.

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“Of course, I will always welcome a descheduling of marijuana from Schedule I. I will be supportive of that, because it … reduces that harm but it doesn’t quite make all of the wrongs right.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ask a Pol drugs