AOC on Green New Deal: We’ve Been Creeping Towards Getting a Majority of the Democratic Caucus on Board

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "Yeah, you know, we know this, that the bar for us, the bar for you as your freshman — as — as a freshman member, the bar for me as a freshman member, for Ayanna, Rashida, everybody is so much higher than it is normally for a lot of, you know, especially mediocre Republican freshmen. So it's like, 'Oh, you introduced a sweeping legislation. Why didn't you pass it yet? And we're like, 'First of all, we've been here for five minutes. Second of all, even with resolutions like the Green New Deal or your housing resolution or lots of other big progressive resolutions, we've actually been creeping towards getting a majority of the Democratic caucus signed on board. And so a lot of people think that there's only like two people on the Green New Deal. No. There's over a hundred members signed on — of Congress signed on to the Green New Deal.”