Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will vote before August on a Green New Deal resolution authored by progressive Democrats.
“I’ve been reading with some amusement that our friends on the other side appear reluctant to vote on the Green New Deal,” McConnell said Tuesday, referring to the resolution freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced this month. “The only question I would ask is if this is such a popular thing to do and so necessary, why would one want to dodge the vote?”
Ocasio-Cortez introduced the measure in the House on Feb. 7, but it is not scheduled for a vote. The measure and fact sheet authored by Ocasio-Cortez aides that was distributed but then deleted has drawn criticism and even ridicule by calling for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, providing everyone with jobs and healthcare, and reforming agriculture to eliminate cows.
Democrats argue that the GOP has done nothing legislatively to combat climate change that they believe is an existential threat to the planet.
