{"id":645,"date":"2026-06-26T04:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:39:59","slug":"democrats-newest-star-is-fully-funded-by-your-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Newest Star Is Fully Funded By Your Tax Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><p><span>Soon-to-be U.S. Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own financial struggles in New York City motivated her to run for Congress, but the Daily Wire found that Chevalier spent the last seven years as a professional student.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=641\">The Finger Point That Set Mullin Off<\/a><\/p><p><span>When asked why voters should choose her to represent them in Congress this November, Chevalier told Jen Psaki, \u201cI am someone who felt deeply abandoned by the establishment politics that far too often see my community as merely a statistic \u2026\u00a0 someone who had to live with the question of whether I can even afford to stay in the city I love.\u201d<\/span><\/p><blockquote><p>Darializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own grapples with affordability motivated her to run for Congress.<\/p><p>Chevalier is in the seventh year of her PhD program at CUNY in NYC. pic.twitter.com\/PFMLu1V6YJ<\/p><p>\u2014 Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) June 24, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><p><span>The Daily Wire reviewed Chevalier\u2019s financial disclosures and found that the candidate, who built her platform around affordability for the working class, reported income almost entirely from taxpayer-supported institutions.<\/span><\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-643\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90a6523b9920c2b345796caf8d88e3f3-1024x365.avif\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90a6523b9920c2b345796caf8d88e3f3-1024x365.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90a6523b9920c2b345796caf8d88e3f3-300x107.avif 300w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90a6523b9920c2b345796caf8d88e3f3-768x274.avif 768w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90a6523b9920c2b345796caf8d88e3f3.avif 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><p><span>Chevalier collected $88,027.27 in 2025 and $46,747.65 in 2024. The largest source of income for Chevalier comes from the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, which receives its revenue almost entirely from government grants. Last year, the organization reported $55,159,731 in revenue, with $55,159,400 coming from government contributions. That left the remaining $331 coming from private donations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-644\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e-1024x553.avif\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e-1024x553.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e-300x162.avif 300w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e-768x415.avif 768w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e-1536x829.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e92c2c25b672a890169df3dbe0e1a73e.avif 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><p><span>Her other sources of income came from higher education fellowships and stipends, which, like the Neighborhood Defender Service, are almost exclusively taxpayer-funded. City University of New York primarily receives its revenue from New York State, New York City taxpayers, and government grants.<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=639\">Letitia James Rips Mamdani For Blowing Up Dem Establishment<\/a><\/p><p><span>If elected to Congress, Chevalier would receive a 97.73% pay increase from taxpayers when she begins to collect Congress\u2019s standard $174,000 salary. As a congresswoman, Chevalier has declared she will promote socialist values as a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/span><\/p><p><span>In an interview with a newspaper published in the Dominican Republic, Chevalier <\/span><span>told<\/span><span> a reporter that democratic socialism seeks to \u201csave the nation\u201d and that the real dangers do not come from socialism but the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, as it produces \u201cabysmal economic inequality that can destroy society.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span>In the past, Chevalier has called for \u201cseizing the means of production,\u201d increasing taxes on corporations, and a <\/span><span>universal basic income<\/span><span> that would allow all citizens to receive a set, unconditional cash payment without work requirements attached. She also <\/span><span>proposes<\/span><span> a federal job guarantee, which would ensure employment to anyone unable to find work in the private sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span>The congresswoman has previously <\/span><span>called<\/span><span> for abolishing police and prisons. In a recent interview, Chevalier was unable to explain why she thinks someone who is convicted of murder should not go to jail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u201cWhat we do is that we then put people behind bars in incredibly traumatizing conditions in a context where they cannot actually reflect on the harm that they caused or feel any remorse on that because they\u2019re just trying to survive inside, and they\u2019re being re-traumatized day after day after day while inside,\u201d she argued.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=637\">EXCLUSIVE: Ken Paxton Says \u2018Texans Deserve The Truth\u2019 About \u2018Hypocrite\u2019 Talarico<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon-to-be U.S. Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own financial struggles in New York City motivated her to run for Congress, but the Daily Wire found that Chevalier spent the last seven years as a professional student.\u00a0When asked why voters should choose her to represent them in Congress this November, Chevalier told Jen Psaki, \u201cI am someone who felt deeply abandoned by the establishment politics that far too often see my community as merely a statistic \u2026\u00a0 someone who had to live with the question of whether I can even afford to stay in the city I love.\u201dDarializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own grapples with affordability motivated her to run for Congress.Chevalier is in the seventh year of her PhD program at CUNY in NYC. pic.twitter.com\/PFMLu1V6YJ\u2014 Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) June 24, 2026The Daily Wire reviewed Chevalier\u2019s financial disclosures and found that the candidate, who built her platform around affordability for the working class, reported income almost entirely from taxpayer-supported institutions. Chevalier collected $88,027.27 in 2025 and $46,747.65 in 2024. The largest source of income for Chevalier comes from the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, which receives its revenue almost entirely from government grants. Last year, the organization reported $55,159,731 in revenue, with $55,159,400 coming from government contributions. That left the remaining $331 coming from private donations.\u00a0  Her other sources of income came from higher education fellowships and stipends, which, like the Neighborhood Defender Service, are almost exclusively taxpayer-funded. City University of New York primarily receives its revenue from New York State, New York City taxpayers, and government grants.If elected to Congress, Chevalier would receive a 97.73% pay increase from taxpayers when she begins to collect Congress\u2019s standard $174,000 salary. As a congresswoman, Chevalier has declared she will promote socialist values as a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America.In an interview with a newspaper published in the Dominican Republic, Chevalier told a reporter that democratic socialism seeks to \u201csave the nation\u201d and that the real dangers do not come from socialism but the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, as it produces \u201cabysmal economic inequality that can destroy society.\u201d\u00a0In the past, Chevalier has called for \u201cseizing the means of production,\u201d increasing taxes on corporations, and a universal basic income that would allow all citizens to receive a set, unconditional cash payment without work requirements attached. She also proposes a federal job guarantee, which would ensure employment to anyone unable to find work in the private sector.\u00a0The congresswoman has previously called for abolishing police and prisons. In a recent interview, Chevalier was unable to explain why she thinks someone who is convicted of murder should not go to jail.\u00a0\u201cWhat we do is that we then put people behind bars in incredibly traumatizing conditions in a context where they cannot actually reflect on the harm that they caused or feel any remorse on that because they\u2019re just trying to survive inside, and they\u2019re being re-traumatized day after day after day while inside,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democrats\u2019 Newest Star Is Fully Funded By Your Tax Dollars - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=645\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrats\u2019 Newest Star Is Fully Funded By Your Tax Dollars - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Soon-to-be U.S. Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own financial struggles in New York City motivated her to run for Congress, but the Daily Wire found that Chevalier spent the last seven years as a professional student.\u00a0When asked why voters should choose her to represent them in Congress this November, Chevalier told Jen Psaki, \u201cI am someone who felt deeply abandoned by the establishment politics that far too often see my community as merely a statistic \u2026\u00a0 someone who had to live with the question of whether I can even afford to stay in the city I love.\u201dDarializa Avila Chevalier told Jen Psaki that her own grapples with affordability motivated her to run for Congress.Chevalier is in the seventh year of her PhD program at CUNY in NYC. pic.twitter.com\/PFMLu1V6YJ\u2014 Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) June 24, 2026The Daily Wire reviewed Chevalier\u2019s financial disclosures and found that the candidate, who built her platform around affordability for the working class, reported income almost entirely from taxpayer-supported institutions. 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