- Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will debate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal – after reading ‘all 14 pages’ of the document.
- AOC did not confirm that this debate was taking place, but the two were discussed on the House floor on Wednesday.
- Greene tweeted last week that she wants the debate to be broadcast on pay-per-view TV and that profits should be split between them.
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Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will debate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal – but only after reading “all 14 pages” of it.
Greene tweeted that she was ‘glad’ to hit AOC and that they would ‘plan time’ for the debate after reading the 14-page Green New Deal document.
AOC did not confirm this debate, but the two spoke on the floor of the House on Wednesday – and Greene did not respond in public.
—Marjorie Taylor Greene @ (@mtgreenee) 21 April 2021
Insider released both Green and Ocasio-Cortez for comment.
Greene has insisted on a debate on pay-per-view television with the New York congressman, during which she plans to discuss it with Ocasio-Cortez on the proposal on climate change.
In a series of tweets On April 14, Greene said the debate would be ‘informative for the American people’ and suggested that she and Ocasio-Cortez ‘negotiate an important news network to host the debate’, with each electing one moderator.
“Since you sponsored the Green New Deal and have a degree in economics, I’m sure you’re more than qualified,” Greene wrote.
She added that she also has her own qualifications and tweeted: “I only have a degree in business administration and have owned a construction company for 20 years.”
As for the monetary gains from the pay-per-view debate, Greene also said suggested that they could divide the money raised.
Democratic lawmakers – including Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey – reinstated the Green New Deal resolution on Tuesday.
The non-binding resolution, first introduced in February 2019, provides a ten-year plan to eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution, and transform the U.S. economy into one that does not rely on fossil fuels.
Greene was a vocal critic of AOC and the Green New Deal. In February, in a town hall in Murray County, Georgia, she argued, “Maybe we live off a ball that revolves around the sun, that flies through the universe, and maybe our climate just changes.”
There is a 97% consensus among the scientific community that humans are the cause of climate change.
Greene also previously said that the wildfires in California were not caused by climate change, but by space lasers funded by Jewish investment firms, a claim that exploded because it was inaccurate and anti-Semitic.