WASHINGTON — Firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sidestepped a question about whether Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should step aside after Dems caved in the government shutdown fight, amid buzz of her eyeing a 2028 primary against him.

The Queens and Bronx congresswoman faulted Senate Democrats overall and blasted the eight who let Republicans wrangle a bill through the upper chamber to end the record-breaking government shutdown .

“I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person, and it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 36, told reporters Wednesday when asked if Senate Democrats should chuck Schumer (D-NY), 74, as their leader.

“You had eight Senate Democrats who coordi

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