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Green New Deal Goes to Senate Floor, Dems Call Out GOP “Stunt”

HeadlineMar 26, 2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding a vote on the Green New Deal today, in what is being called a “stunt vote” designed to force Democrats to take a stand on a still-divisive resolution that has no chance of passing in the Republican-controlled chamber. Democrats reportedly plan to block the move by voting “present” rather than for or against the resolution. Republicans have been spreading misinformation about the Green New Deal, while Democrats have accused them of failing to offer any solutions to the climate crisis. Democratic leadership has resisted backing the deal, although all 2020 hopefuls in congressional office have come out in support of it.

New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has become the political face of the Green New Deal and introduced its House version, blasted the move by Republicans, tweeting, “The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others 'on the record', for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for.”

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