Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been using her considerable reach to criticize a power player in New York City politics.

“This is movie villain type of decision-making right there,” she said of City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams in a series of Instagram videos Tuesday night.

Adams finally responded Thursday.

“Some federal officials forget that a city is not managed through Twitter or social media,” the speaker said.

Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, had condemned Adams for what the congresswoman said was “dirty politics” – the apparent withholding of funds from local organizations supported by dissenting council members.

Adams said: “It is simply factually incorrect that I excluded members from speaker’s list funding for groups in their district.”

The speaker, however, acknowledged the Queens Boys & Girls Club that Ocasio-Cortez singled out was allotted less funding as an “oversight.”

Adams said she was working to correct the situation.

And she noted the members who voted Monday against the budget won’t have their names attached to the funding – and thus don’t get credit.

Some maintained this is a form of retaliation for their no votes.

Adams said she saw it differently.

“Any act of retaliation from me would have been an act of retaliation upon a community, and that is certainly not what happened in this case,” she said.

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams was asked about an apparent proxy war with Ocasio-Cortez in which the moderate and the left-wing Democrats are backing state Assembly rivals.

“Well, first I consider myself a pragmatic progressive and I believe that people have high-jacked the term of being progressive,” he told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” adding: “And this is not really about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman, this is about a philosophy in which I believe Americans believe in.”

The mayor went on to list safe streets, good education and strong businesses as his objectives.

Ocasio-Cortez in her Instagram videos commended the six left-leaning City Council members who voted earlier this week against the budget.

They did so for reasons ranging from cuts to the school budget to what they see as too much funding for the NYPD.

Council Member Chi Ossé said he was seeking more clarity from the speaker on the discretionary funding process. He added: “I take comfort in the vote that I made on Monday. This is democracy. This is a democratic institution. We should be able to participate in democracy, especially when the budget passed anyways.”