Fail of the Green New Deal

Blog 9

The Senate failed to move forward with Democrats’ “Green New Deal,” but the partisan clash over the controversial environmental plan is likely to be a continuing theme ahead of the 2020 election. 

The measure needed 60 votes to advance but was blocked when all Senate Republicans and four Senate Democrats opposed it. The rest of the chamber’s Democrats voted “present.”

The New Deal failed 0-57. Not one Democrat voted for it. That just shows you that democrats don’t even approve of there own devices. Multiple Democrat Senators advocated and supported it, but voted present. Which means they’re there so they can get paid but didn’t want to vote.

Ahead of the vote, McConnell tweeted, “The American people will see which of their senators can do the common-sense thing and vote ‘no’ on this destructive socialist daydream.” The vote also set up Democrats to go on the record about the Green New Deal ahead of 2020 elections, essentially catching them in the act of supporting what McConnell called “a destructive socialist daydream.”