Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Engaged to Longtime Partner Riley Roberts

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her boyfriend Riley Roberts.Photo: James Devaney/GC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezis engaged to her longtime partner Riley Roberts. “It’s true! Thank you all for the well wishes,” the New York Congresswoman, 32,said on Twitterin reply to a post about the news. The couple, who met when they were undergraduates at Boston University, got engaged in Puerto Rico but haven’t started making plans for a wedding just yet. “We got engaged last month in my family’s hometown in Puerto Rico,” the Democrat and “Squad” membertold an Insider reportervia Twitter message.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Made C-SPAN History — and May Be Competing with Trump on Twitter

Photo: Charles Krupa/AP/REX/Shutterstock When it comes to Twitter, it looks like President Donald Trump has some competition. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was one of a wave of new faces joining Congress earlier this month, made C-SPAN history when a video of her speech from the House floor went viral on Twitter on Thursday. As of Friday afternoon, the just-over four minute video had 2.48 million views. That record-breaking stat follows arecent study of total engagement on Twitter, in December and January.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Knows Why She's a 'Lightning Rod': Trump Needs Another Woman to 'Vilify,' She Says

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezexpected to become a “lightning rod” for conservatives, she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Friday during a taped talk about her Green New Deal — an expansive legislative proposal to fight climate change and social inequality that’s controversial even among some of her fellow Democrats. But, Ocasio-Cortez told Hayes, she didn’t anticipate this amount of anger. “[The criticism] is next level,” the 29-year-old democratic socialist from New York City told Hayes during their talk, which was recorded in her home borough of the Bronx.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Makes Political Statement with 'Tax the Rich' Gown at 2021 Met Gala

Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezdecided to send a bold message with her fashion at the2021 Met Gala. She completed the outfit with a pair of red shoes and a bag also bearing the same words. “It’s really about having a real conversation,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters about the inspiration behind the statement. “It’s about fairness and equity in our system and I think that this conversation is particularly relevant.” Kevin Mazur/MG21/Getty

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Being Raped in Her 20s: 'I Felt So Alone'

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezis getting candid about her own experience in the fight for reproductive rights. The New York Congresswoman, 32, opened up about being sexually assaulted during a rally Friday in Manhattan, following theSupreme Court’s decision to overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wadeand the constitutional right to abortion. “I took friends and I supported friends through abortions, when I had friends that were sexually assaulted, right after getting off of work,” she recalled.