Takeaways from Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez’s CNN town hall on the government shutdown

As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of refusing to work to end the government shutdown and referred to House Speaker Mike Johnson as focusing on “inane and silly” things, the White House’s rapid response account was calling her and fellow progressive Bernie Sanders “not serious people.”

The 90-minute town hall with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins illustrated how far apart Democrats and Republicans are from resolving their differences.

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Sanders, the independent Vermont senator, and Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman from New York, warned Wednesday night that the nation’s health care system could collapse if R