Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to cry on the House floor after breaking with her fellow Squad members in a vote to fund Israel’s Iron Dome.

The bill passed with a 420 to 9 bipartisan majority despite the Squad’s efforts, led by Ms Ocasio-Cortez, to nudge forward its agenda of withholding military aid to Israel.

Among the no votes were Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, who was accused of antisemitism by a fellow Democrat.

The Squad earlier this week leveraged the urgency of raising the debt limit to withdraw $1bn in funding for the missile defence system from the Democrats’ earlier spending bill.

But instead of standing by her opposition in Thursday’s vote, Ms Ocasio-Cortez changed her vote to “present” at the last minute.

Her tears were slammed as "theatre, and bad theatre at that" by critics like Meghan McCain in response the moment being reported by journalist Jake Sherman.