Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Net Worth 2023

Popular by her initials AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to prominence when she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the age of 29 years. Before making her entry into the politics, Cortez has worked as a bartender and waitress in Manhattan. Many assertions have been made about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Net Worth 2023 with sources claiming that she is a millionaire with a lavish lifestyle. But the fact is that Cortez lives a very simple life and her net worth is as meager as $3,003 and $45,000. Her only major source of income is her salary and she owes thousands of dollars in students loan. Get more details about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez such as salary, net worth, personal life, etc from this article.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Salary & Net Worth 2023

According to the most recent financial disclosure forms submitted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (that was in 2021). In the report, her net worth was mentioned in between $3,003 and $45,000 in assets and also included a pension plan. Other than this, she had a checking account with around $1,001 to $15,000 in it, $1,001 to $15,000 in a brokerage account, and between $1,001 to $15,000 invested in her retirement plan. Alexandria’s statements from the US Department of Education also showed that she owes between $15,000 and $50,000 in federally backed student loans.

Now other than this minimal net worth, Ocasio-Cortez earns an annual salary of $174,000 as a member of Congress. In the name of property, Cortez merely rents apartments in New York City, which she represents in the US House of Representatives, and in Washington DC.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Personal Biography

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989 in the New York City borough of the Bronx to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez and Sergio Ocasio-Roman. Her father was an architect but he died from lung cancer in 2008. Cortez also has a younger brother named Gabriel. Cortez is currently engaged to her partner, Riley Roberts who is a web developer. The couple got engaged in April 2022 in Puerto Rico.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Political Career

Ocasio-Cortez was still waiting tables and tending bar at a restaurant in New York City while she began her campaign for US House of Representatives in April 2017. Cortez was endorsed by various progressive and civil rights organizations and was able to defeat the 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley by 57.13% of the vote which was almost almost 15 percentage points. This result was very shocking for many political commentators and analysts and also gathered nationwide attention. Cortez started office at the age of 29, thus becoming the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress, and also the youngest member of the 116th Congress.

Awards and honors

• There is an asteroid named 23238 Ocasio-Cortez by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory after her when she was a senior in high school. This honor was granted for her second-place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
• Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by Ernesto Nieto.
• Ocasio-Cortez was awarded the Adelle Foley Award in 2019. 
• Cortez was also named as one of the 2019 BBC 100 Women.
• Alexandria has also been mentioned by the Forbes in 2019 under their 30 Under 30 list (Law & Policy).

Myths about AOC’s net worth

Many speculations were made and published by different media sources claiming that her net worth is somewhere around $29 million. However, in her financial disclosure, which members of Congress are required to file, Cortez reported a checking account between $1,001 to $15,000, a brokerage account and a 401(k) plan collectively worth between $3,003 and $45,000. The source of the $29 million figure does not cite any valid sources and was merely a myth or rumour one can say. In 2021, one social media post also falsely claimed her net worth to be more than $1 million. Her financial disclosures at that time also showed that was not the case. Cortez has frequently been the subject of criticism and misinformation by conservatives. 

Popular Quotes by AOC

1. I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
2. We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
3. Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
4. Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
5. Change takes courage.

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