After less than a week, she ended her brief break with a post indicating she could "direct" poor New York residents to West Virginia moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin's houseboat.
During an Instagram Story Q&A on Monday night, one observant user challenged the Progressive firebrand's apparent absence on Twitter, where she usually posts regularly.
The Internet-savvy Progressive lawmaker responded that she's taking a break because of "negative comments" that gave her "anxiety" after her attack with COVID and her vacation in Miami.
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At the time, her last post on either her professional or personal accounts was dated January 27.
But on Tuesday afternoon, Ocasio-Cortez retweeted CNN reporting that Manchin said President Joe Biden's Progressive-backed Build Back Better bill was "dead."
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"Seniors, kids, & people with disabilities in my community have been sleeping with bubble jackets on in 18 degree nights, despite paying rent, bc the NYCHA funding to fix their heating and capital needs is in BBB," Ocasio-Cortez wrote shortly after 2:30 p.m. Eastern. "Where should I direct them to wait out the cold? Manchin's yacht?"
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After it was revealed Manchin spent $75,000 on private security detail last year amid increased protests and threats over him splitting from Biden's program.
The New York firebrand and member of The Squad made the announcement through an Instagram video, where she told her 8.5 million followers she was just "taking a break" and would return.
Ocasio-Cortez tested positive for the virus on January 9 after her maskless tour to Florida, where she partied with actor Billy Porter and drank cocktails with her boyfriend at a sushi restaurant.
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On her way back to Washington, DC, on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez held a Q&A on her Instagram Story where a user, noticing her recent lack of tweets, asked: "When will you come back to Twitter?? You're missed."
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"That's so funny that you brought that up," Ocasio-Cortez smiled. "Yeah when I got COVID I turned off all my devices, which means I wasn't really on social media that much or anything like that."
"And I found that when I went to open Twitter up again, it just like wasn't really making me --"
Her video cut off at Instagram's 15-second time limit for individual clips, but she continued to explain her absence on the Mark Zuckerberg app in a second portion.
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"So I mean, literally, I would go to open the app and I almost felt anxious. People like, kind of fight and gossip, and all this other stuff so much," Ocasio-Cortez said.
"But -- and there's a lot of negative negativity on there -- but I'll be back. Don't worry. Just a break."
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