Senate rejects Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal in 57-0 vote blasted as a ‘sham’ by Dems

The Green New Deal failed to pass a procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday, with Democrats sꦍlamming the GOP motion as a “sham” and with two exceptions voting “present” in protest.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put the ambitious plan to create jobs and improve the environment to a vote to force Democrats to take 🎀a public stand on the measure and try to divide the party’s moderates and progressives.

The final vote was 57 a👍gainst and no one for the plan, with 43 Democrats voting present.

Red State Demo🌱🙈cratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted no.

”I could not be more glad that the American people will have🐲 the opportunity to learn precisely where each one of their senators stand on the ‘Green New Deal’: a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire US economy,”

Democrats, including New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the vote a political stunt.

“The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target other🌜s ‘🎉on the record’, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace. Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, &; that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for,” the freshman lawmaker