Contributions to the AOC-led fundraiser are split evenly between Feeding Texas, ECHO (Ending Community Homelessness Coalition), Family Eldercare, The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, Corazon Ministries, and the Houston, Central Texas, North Texas and Rio Grande Valley food banks.AOC visited struggling Texans personally on Saturday to promote the efforts of the fundraiser and lend a helping hand to fill boxes at the Houston Food Bank."When disaster strikes, this is not just an issue for Texans – this is an issue for our entire country," AOC told reporters, according to NPR. "And our whole country needs to come and rally together behind the needs of Texans all across this state.""That's the New York spirit, that's the Texas spirit, and that's the American spirit," she added.Millions of residents in Texas have dealt with power outages for days, and nearly half of Texans struggled with disrupted water service or were left without clean drinking water. Many still do not have these essential services.Around 70 deaths have been attributed to the storm and a cold snap. It is also being revealed that a good portion of the deaths are the result of hypothermia, according to AP News."We need to make sure that we make short- and long-term policy decisions so that this devastation – preventable devastation – never happens again," Ocasio-Cortez said.Reuters contributed to this report.We just hit $4 million!Reps. Sylvia Garcia, Sheila Jackson Lee & Al Green of Houston are doing incredible work w/ local relief organizations to get emergency relief to Texans.Today we went to food distributions, water delivery sites, and home tours of impacted Texans. pic.twitter.com/5QzIgYvz8L
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 20, 2021
AOC visits Texas, raises $4 million for those without power, food, water
Within a day it had raised one million, by that night it had raised two. By morning it rose to three and today it stands at four million raised.
