The Green New Deal is the hot topic of inside of the Beltway chatter. Almost immediately upon introduction, nearly every Democrat who had announced his or her 2020 candidacy for president, including sitting U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), endorsed this political non-starter. And on the other side of the aisle, Republicans are rightly willing to step aside and allow this political gold to become a political noose for Democrats in 2020.
However, Republicans shouldn't sit on the sidelines for too long. Such a golden chance to offer a reasonable alternative proposal doesn't come around often in this town.
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