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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Tuition free public colleges and universities [are] not new.”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

Jon Stewart & AOC Take On Trump’s Comeback and Rebuilding the Democratic Party The Weekly Show.

Published January 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 50:58

Like and, and the stuff that's crazy to me is like the answers are stuff like we're just asking for things that our parents and our grandparents had like Tuition free public colleges and universities [are] not new. Not new for. My parents went to City College in New York. It was Free. You know, this was the 1940s. You know, that's right. We should be lowering the age of Medicare. (50:58–51:00)

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Asserts that tuition-free public colleges and universities have existed in the past.

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