The group known as 'The Bloc' is further left than 'The Squad'.
Posted by Speaker Mike Johnson, Checked
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Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnsonOct 29, 2026The claim that 'The Bloc' is further left than 'The Squad' is a comparative ideological judgment; sources describe The Bloc as DSA-backed and 'even more openly socialist' than the Squad (a non-authoritative tier-unrated blog piece quoting a campaign-style framing), and describe the Squad as the furthest left faction of the Democratic Caucus (Wikipedia), but no authoritative source directly grades the.
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… They want to abolish the borders, abolish prisons, defund the police, defund the Department of War, put men back in women's sports and girls locker rooms. It just goes on and on and on. They're telling you what they're about. Now the block is even further left than the squad, which was already the most progressive group of, you know, radical leftist members of Congress that we've ever seen. The Democrat Party is being taken over by the insurgent left. Hakeem Jeffries will not have a race for speaker because Republicans are going to win. I'll be the speaker in the next Congress. …
Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnson · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. A news-style piece describes The Bloc as the 'even more openly socialist successor to the progressive Squad' and as DSA-backed, which points toward a further-left reading.[4]
Supports. Wikipedia describes the Squad as the furthest left faction of the Democratic Caucus, but does not address The Bloc, so there is no direct comparison.[5]
Context. Axios describes The Bloc as an informal grouping of DSA- and Justice Democrats-backed candidates, without ranking its ideological position relative to the Squad.[6]
Context. Fact-check sources in the set (FactCheck.org, PolitiFact listings, Full Fact) do not address The Bloc or the ideological comparison at all.[1][2][3]
Sources
6 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 3 not rated
- 1Trump's False Claims About Rep. Ilhan Omarfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Latest Fact-Checks On Left Actionpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Full Factfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Forget The Squad. Meet The Bloc.wcbm.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Squad (U.S. Congress) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6House Democrats' incoming progressive "Bloc" plots its first movesaxios.com · not rated · cited for: context
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