The vote on the “Green New Deal” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced on Tuesday is only the beginning.
Senate Republicans say McConnell sees Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) signature issues as a way to make Democrats in the Senate uncomfortable.
In addition to the vote after next week’s recess on the star freshman’s climate change plan, they say the Senate could find itself considering Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on the nation’s highest income earners, providing “Medicare for all” and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“We’ll give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday.
