Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Monday that she had successfully “forced” Republicans to take climate change seriously with the introduction of her Green New Deal.
“It’s true. The #GreenNewDeal, as much as GOP hiss, scream, storytell & cry about it, has forced even the most entrenched Tea Partiers into publicly abandoning their climate denial stance. The reason they’re so focused on discrediting the GND is because it’s a winning policy,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter.
It’s true.
The #GreenNewDeal, as much as GOP hiss, scream, storytell & cry about it, has forced even the most entrenched Tea Partiers into publicly abandoning their climate denial stance.
The reason they’re so focused on discrediting the GND is because it’s a winning policy. ⬇️ https://t.co/hzjchYZV6N
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet included her retweeting comments she made to Vice News about her Green New Deal proposal.
“If we didn’t make climate a priority right now, they would still be sitting on their hands,” Ocasio-Cortez said to Vice.
“What is remarkable about this moment is that we’re not just changing the Democratic Party’s agenda; we’re changing the Republican agenda, too,” she added.
The statements follow Ocasio-Cortez claiming that Republicans were taking her too “literally” when she said we have 12 years to stop climate change.
“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it. Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter Sunday.
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This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019
Some critics have slammed the Green New Deal as too expensive, with a price tag of an estimated $93 trillion. Democrats who support the measure say its a starting point for a potential climate change legislation package.
