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Chakrabarti then said current times call for “leaders that lead,” citing his boss and the other members of the so-called “Squad” as examples.

“Voters want representatives who will fight, even if they lose,” he tweeted. “The fact that House Democratic leadership doesn't see this is incredibly troubling.”

While more Republicans voted to pass a bill than Democrats for the first time in the 116th Congress, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer emphasized that the majority of his Democratic caucus still voted for the bill in an effort to “get the best result,” though he conceded the move created some hard feelings.

“We didn’t roll over,” Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat insisted, stressing the Senate’s bill included several of the House’s priorities. “Nobody rolled over.”

“We had a difference in the caucus. Some people wanted to make a point, as opposed to a policy. It was not so much of a policy different. It was a procedural difference, and a perception difference,” Hoyer, D-Md., said. “We don’t control the Senate, we don’t control the presidency, and Democracy is about trying to get things done, and particularly in our position you need to compromise.”

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House Democratic Caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries worked to downplay the “impassioned” divisions over the humanitarian crisis at the border Wednesday, joking with reporters, “It’s all puppies and rainbows.”

“Now we’re at a point where we can move forward, and we will move forward in defense of both the rule of law on the border and in defense of our cherished history as a nation of immigrants,” Jeffries, D-N.Y., said.

For days the fallout from the article splitting two of the country’s most prominent Democrats appeared to widen after Pelosi highlighted that none of the Squad’s rabble-rousers supported a Democratic version of legislation that passed the House but was quickly defeated in the Senate.

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi told Dowd for the column published in the New York Times on Saturday. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

Ocasio-Cortez, known colloquially as AOC on Capitol Hill, shot back in a series of tweets consumed by her loyal force of nearly 5 million Twitter followers – two million more than Pelosi’s following.

\"Having respect for ourselves doesn’t mean we lack respect for her. It means we won’t let everyday people be dismissed,\" she said.

But the reality on Capitol Hill is that the longevity of Pelosi’s speakership depends more heavily on her majority makers than AOC or the other progressive freshmen whose seats aren’t at risk in 2020.

Ahead of a House Oversight hearing Wednesday during which Ocasio-Cortez would listen to testimony from an asylum seeker whose sick 19-month-old baby died weeks after spending time in an ICE detention facility, the congresswoman told ABC News she hopes the conversation about the border crisis begins to shift.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said of the plight of Yazmin Juárez, who has filed a wrongful death claim against the U.S. government after her daughter Mariee died. “I’m looking forward to hearing her story and she has a lot of bravery to be able to do what she’s doing. I hope it will be a pivotal moment.”

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