BREAKING: AOC demands ‘expeditious’ wealth tax on Americans, calls to restore USAID at Munich Security Conference

When asked by the moderator if she wanted to impose a wealth tax as president, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I don't think that anyone, and that we don't have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.”

Other speakers at the event spoke about the rise of “right-wing populist” governments around the world, with some calling for a more left-wing approach to politics, including Ocasio-Cortez. During the panel, she called for more regulation on corporations in the US, calling for higher wages as well as pointing out income inequality.

Ocasio-Cortez, who also took issue with Trump during the panel, said that the US is a very “grave” place on the world stage, and in a vague reference to the Israel-Hamas war, said the US looked “the other way in a genocide.”

"I think this is a moment where we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the Transatlantic partnership, uh, rip up every democratic norm, uh, and, you know, really calling into question, as was mentioned by, um, by Dick Carney, at the World Economic Forum. The rules-based order that we have, or question mark, do we have? And so I think one of the reasons why not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact, Democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, um, is because we want to tell a larger story that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era domestically and globally,” she said.

“I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when, too often in the West, we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations, um, to act out these paradoxes, whether it is, you know, kidnapping a foreign head of state. Whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is, um, looking the other way in a genocide. Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally,” she later added.

Additionally, Ocasio-Cortez called for the restoration of funding for USAID, a program that assists with international aid around the world. However, when it was audited by DOGE in the early days of the Trump administration, billions of dollars in waste were found.

"You know, first and foremost, I think we need to revisit our commitments to international aid, um, not just US, USAID, but the, the dozens of global compacts that this current Secretary of State and President Trump have withdrawn from,” Ocasio-Cortez said.