Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Don't hate me cuz you ain't me'

No Images? Click here         Trump may declare national emergency for border wall  President Donald Trump said in a Friday afternoon press conference that he could declare a national emergency over immigration at the southern U.S. border to circumvent the need for congressional approval to build a border wall. “We can call a national emergency and build it very quickly,” Trump told reporters. READ MORE     WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? Democrats took back the House on Thursday, electing Nancy Pelosi to be speaker and quickly passing legislation to reopen closed government agencies. But those efforts to end the shutdown are going nowhere fast, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to block the bill and President Donald Trump saying he would veto it. READ MORE Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had one thing to say to the GOP congressmen who reportedly booed her as she voted for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to become the new House speaker on Thursday. “Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me, fellas,” tweeted the 29-year-old, who with her own swearing-in became the youngest congresswoman in history. READ MORE Mainstream media is blowing its coverage of Elizabeth Warren's DNA test. Tribal leaders and Native people say the senator is an ally — and they support her look at her ancestry. But hardly anyone asked them. READ MORE    .     ICYMI GOP clutches pearls over Rep. Rashida Tlaib's "foul language" -- but shrugs over Trump's.      Kyrsten Sinema makes history as the first openly bisexual person to be sworn into the Senate. The elected democrat is Arizona's first female Senator and only the second openly LGBT person in the Senate   House Democrats unveiled Friday the For the People Act, a comprehensive package of democratic reforms and the first major bill of the 116th Congress. The bill is a sweeping combination of election, campaign finance and ethics reforms designed to make voting easier, curb the power of big donors and reduce conflicts of interest in all three branches of government.    . Want more?  Police investigate after woman in vegetative state for over a decade gives birth Jim Carrey torches Louis C.K. with cartoon tribute to Parkland shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez  Ellen DeGeneres begs Kevin Hart to host the Oscars, faces fiery backlash     HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe    . - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe