New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has long claimed to hail from the Bronx and did so once again last week during an online exchange with President Donald Trump.

Yet as the New York Post noted in an article published on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez seems intent on keeping her real origins a secret. 

Congresswoman moved to suburban Westchester County at age 5

That's apparently due to the fact that despite being born in the Bronx, the congresswoman moved with her family at age 5 to Yorktown Heights, a suburban community located in Westchester County.

The Post recalled how following her election to the House of Representatives in 2018, Yorktown High School science teacher Michael Bluegrass spoke of Ocasio-Cortez having been in his class.

"She was amazing," the teacher told Halston Media. "Aside from her winning one of the top spots and going to the [Intel International Science and Engineering Fair], she was just one of the most amazing presenters in all of the years I’ve been at Yorktown."

"Her ability to take complex information and explain it to all different levels of people was fantastic," Bluegrass said of Ocasio-Cortez, who was then known as "Sandy."

Republican Matt Slater represents Yorktown Heights in the New York State Assembly, and he recently told the Post that Ocasio-Cortez is an imposter.

"She's embarrassing herself for doing everything possible to avoid saying she grew up in the suburbs instead of the Bronx," the state lawmaker was quoted as saying.

"She has said she visited extended family, she has said she commuted. Now she's in between. It's clearly desperate attempts to protect the lie that she is from the Bronx," he added.

The Post pointed out that late last week, Ocasio-Cortez replied to a social media user who wrote, "She actually grew up in Yorktown Heights of Westchester County in New York. Westchester is affluent. It already was when I grew up there years before AOC."

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"My mom cleaned houses and I helped. We cleaned tutors’ homes in exchange for SAT prep," Ocasio-Cortez went on to insist.

"Growing up between the Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality [and] it’s a big reason I believe the things I do today!" she added.