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March 29, 2019

AOC mocks critics of Green New Deal's estimated $93 trillion price tag: ‘They sound like Dr. Evil’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted critics of her signature policy proposal, the Green New Deal, saying they sounded "like Dr. Evil," referring to the character from the "Austin Powers" movies.

March 28, 2019

Trump mocks Green New Deal, pokes fun at electric cars during Michigan rally

President Trump returned to a favorite campaign theme at his rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday night, mocking the Democratic Green New Deal as "an extreme, $100 trillion government takeover" of the economy.

March 28, 2019

2020 long-shot Delaney swipes at Dem rivals: 'Running on things that aren’t real solutions'

Former Rep. John Delaney worries that some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination are moving too far to the left.

March 28, 2019

Nicolas Loris: The Green New Deal would cost trillions and make not a dime's worth of difference

For advocates of the Deal, the absence of policy details is a feature, not a bug, because it makes generating a cost estimate for the plan, shall we say, challenging.

March 28, 2019

Bradley Blakeman: Green New Deal will change America for the worst, killing jobs, livestock and airline industries

It makes perfect sense for America to be a good steward of the environment today, tomorrow and in the future. But when common sense and reality is trumped by radical ideology and fiction, there is a huge problem that can change our political, economic, social environment to our detriment.

March 28, 2019

New York Post: Democrats’ astonishing climate-change dodge

Call it a sad sign of party unity: Not a single Democrat voted Tuesday to advance Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution in the Senate.

March 27, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez 'happy' to visit Kentucky coal mine, after GOP rep's offer to 'go underground'

On the same day her sweeping Green New Deal proposal went down in the Senate -- with virtually all Democrats voting "present" -- New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested she'd be "happy" to accept a Republican congressman's offer to "go underground" and tour a Kentucky goal mine.

March 27, 2019

Charles Payne calls Ocasio-Cortez's defense of Green New Deal 'disingenuous'

Fox Business host Charles Payne argued Wednesday the childhood asthma crisis in some New York City neighborhoods has nothing to do with climate change, as Ocasio-Cortez claimed.

March 27, 2019

McConnell video mocks Dem senators for voting ‘present’ on Green New Deal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a scathing video mocking Democratic senators for voting “present” on the Green New Deal late Tuesday, despite touting the importance of the proposal for weeks. 

March 27, 2019

Democrats running from Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal – here’s why

On Tuesday, the Senate rejected the nonbinding Green New Deal resolution proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting "present" rather than sign their names to what is very likely the most radical, dangerous, destructive policy offered in decades.