AOCs student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg-freezing journey

WASHINGTON — Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018.

That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.The “Tax the Rich!” pol reported less than $81,000 in total assets.Recently, Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that she’d been saving up for some time instead to freeze her eggs, a process that can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 per cycle.“I got sworn into the House of Representatives when I was 29 years old,” she said in an Instagram video.

“There’s this flip side where you have to then grow up in the public eye in a time that most people usually get to grow more privately.”Ocasio-Cortez amassed the loans while attending Boston University as an international relations and economics major between August 2007 and May 2011 — and went on to tend bar in Manhattan before her successful run for Congress.The “Squad” Democrat has consistently backed student debt cancellation.During former President Joe Biden’s term, she even pushed the 46th commander-in-chief to cancel as much as $50,000 in debt per student borrower.

But she’s not the only US lawmaker who’s still holding student loans.Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has held up to $50,000 over the past eight years in student debt — despite her net worth ballooning for a time to as much as $30 million due to her husband’s winery and venture capital businesses.Not all her colleagues who entered the same freshman class of 2018 have failed to pay off their student debts.Fellow “Squad” Rep.

Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) had up to $100,000 in law school loans that have b...