AOC Spent $50k On Ritzy Hotels, Other Amenities During Puerto Rico Jaunt

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) spent nearly $50,000 on hotels, meals, and event costs in Puerto Rico during the third quarter of this year, according to newly filed federal campaign finance records. The congresswoman rented a venue in San Juan, where she attended a Bad Bunny concert in August, as part of the expenditures.

Filings from her principal campaign committee show payments of $680.52 on July 28 for lodging at the Hotel Palacio Provincial, followed by additional hotel charges of $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and $9,440.79 on Sept. 29. The filings also list various meal and hospitality expenses, bringing the total to roughly $50,000 for the three months.

The spending occurred as Ocasio-Cortez used her social media platforms to criticize what she described as rising gentrification pressures on the island.

The “first-class,” “adults only” Palacio Provincial boasts of being “situated within an historic early 19th century building” with “transcendent hints of the structure’s grand colonial past,” according to the New York Post.

In total, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent $15,489.77 on lodging in Puerto Rico between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to Federal Election Commission records.