Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tried to flip the script on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), claiming he's the one lacking support to advance his debt limit plan.

Although Republicans wrangled through the Limit, Save, Grow Act in a 217-215 vote last month, Ocasio-Cortez said the party lacks support to pass a bill in the Senate and asserted that he "doesn’t have the votes in the House."

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"Why would anyone act like Kevin McCarthy has votes right now? He hasn’t done the work," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "He doesn’t have the votes for his current proposal in the Senate. He doesn’t have the votes in the House. He doesn’t even have the votes in his own party. & GOP are starting to feel that."

Since passing the Limit, Save, Grow Act, McCarthy has needled Democrats over their apparent inability to secure passage of a stand-alone debt limit hike in the Senate.

"A simple way for the Democrats to avoid default is to pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act in the Senate," McCarthy tweeted Tuesday. "With just 9 days left to go, Republicans remain the only ones in Washington who have actually done anything to lift the debt limit and avoid default."

For weeks, many analysts speculated that McCarthy couldn't get his caucus to coalesce around a debt ceiling bill. During that time, the White House refused to bend on its demand for a debt ceiling hike without any spending cuts attached. Then he managed to achieve a breakthrough in late April.

The bill would jack up the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion or until March 24, 2024, whichever comes first, in exchange for myriad spending cuts, including caps on expenditures to fiscal year 2022 levels with a 1% annual increase over the next decade. Democrats blasted the bill as a non-starter.

Ocasio-Cortez has joined many progressives in urging the Biden administration to consider invoking the 14th Amendment, which some legal analysts argue could be used to scrap the debt ceiling. She has also foreshadowed that if the White House caves to GOP spending demands, there will be backlash.

"It's going to be a problem," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. "We do not legislate through the debt ceiling for this very reason."

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has projected that the government has until June 1 before it will run out of the cash needed to meet all its obligations, amplifying concerns about a default.

Debt limit negotiators met Tuesday, but a breakthrough agreement doesn't appear to be close. They are expected to continue negotiating throughout the week.