Mitch McConnell Might Rattle Dems By Forcing Vote on ‘Green New Deal’

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Mitch McConnell Might Rattle Dems By Forcing Vote on ‘Green New Deal’
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By Rusty | Featured Contributor | February 12, 2019 3:50PM

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pondering calling the Democrat Party’s bluff and bringing forth a vote on the ill-conceived ‘Green New Deal,’ The Washington Post’s Robert Costa reports.

Top Democrat contenders for the White House in 2020 jumped at the chance to endorse the proposal in hopes of energizing their wildly radical, environmentalist base.

But they did so without truly analyzing the plan touted by New York socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal seeks to attain a goal of “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers.”

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-green-new-deal/?utm_campaign=TPI_breaking_newsletter_2_16_2019&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4371d3fdbb69c3b8a6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI