‘Squad’ members AOC and Jamaal Bowman boast of infrastructure improvements they voted against

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holding a microphone ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA

They’re selling the bacon, but not bringing it home.

Far-left “Squad” members Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Westchester) have been virtue-signaling to voters about bringing critical infrastructure upgrades back to their districts — even though they voted against the new improvements, records show.

Both pols are gearing up for Democratic primaries and general election campaigns.

“Rep. Ocasio-Cortez delivers for the Bronx and Queens,” proclaimed a mailer she sent constituents last month which touted, among other things, a “$1.87 billion in federal funding for the Cross Bronx Expressway and Penn Station Access Project to expand transit to The Bronx.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent this mailer to constituents bragging about cash for the district she voted against.

The massive cash infusions came in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill which showered the state with more than $100 billion in federal cash — which she voted against. It narrowly passed the House 228-206.

At the time, AOC took issue with the bill being decoupled from the even more humungous $2 trillion Build Back Better plan.

“It’s already so stripped down” she carped during a lengthy Instagram discussion after the vote, adding the bill offered “virtually nothing.”

“I want to protect our party from the disappointment and collapse in turnout from communities like mine that occurs when we tell them we did things we didn’t do,” AOC ironically added in a November 2021 posting to X.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman said he voted against the infrastructure bill because it helped white men too much. Getty Images

Bowman — facing a brutal primary challenge from Westchester County Executive George Latimer — has also looked to cash in on the infrastructure bill by using fuzzy math, critics said.

In January 2024 Bowman boasted about bringing $125 million to his constituents during his three years in Congress, but just weeks later in February 2024 that figure ballooned to a staggering $1 billion.

“During my first term we passed five transformational pieces of legislation,” Bowman said last month — citing the infrastructure legislation by name.

The Moynihan Train Hall was one of many projects funded with federal cash. Getty Images

But in 2021 he voted against the bill — sounding the alarm that it did not go far enough.

“A true infrastructure investment must address the climate crisis, support care workers, reform [supplemental security income], make child care universal, rebuild our public schools, and much more,” Bowman said.

And he also injected race into his objection, griping the act created “jobs that disproportionately go to men, and particularly white men.”

The federal infrastructire bill was one of President Biden’s early legislative achievements. AP

Bowman’s office told The Post that the extra $900 million came from “casework and secured federal grants and loans for organizations in the district.”

“There is no courage in taking credit after the fact, when so many people took political incoming fire at the time,” a Democratic member of Congress told The Post, adding that both AOC and Bowman taking credit for bills they didn’t support was “outrageous.”

Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran New York Democratic strategist, dismissed the duo as “blabbers.”

“They take credit for things they had nothing to do with and then they try and con the people. But I guess the question is, how stupid are New Yorkers?”