• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received one question more than any other: How will she pay for her ambitious policy proposals? 
  • The newly sworn-in lawmaker told INSIDER that there were many ways to come up with the funding, including cutting back on military spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and deficit spending. 
  • Ocasio-Cortez also said that Modern Monetary Theory, which holds that the government doesn't need to balance the budget and that budget surpluses actually hurt the economy, "absolutely" needed to be "a larger part of our conversation."