The issue of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claims about her upbringing came up again over the weekend, the New York Post has reported.
The New York lawmaker has throughout her political career emphasized that she grew up in the Bronx, even though most of her childhood was spent in the suburbs in Yorktown, part of Westchester County.
Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, but her family moved to Yorktown when she was 5 years old and she graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007.
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