ocasio-cortez is a member a group of new progressive members of congress called "the squad" along with ilhan omar (d-mn), ayanna pressley (d-ma), and rashida tlaib (d-mi). in july 2019, president donald trump attacked the squad in a tweet, saying that they should "go back and help fix" the countries they came from instead of criticizing the american government. ocasio-cortez replied that "the president's words [yesterday], telling four american congresswomen of color "go back to your own country," is [the] language of white supremacists. we don't leave the things that we love, and when we love this country, what that means is that we [find] the solutions to fix it."