WATCH: MTG says ‘chicken’ AOC can’t defend energy policy ideas ‘because they’re not her own’
Heather Hamilton
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) too “chicken” and unable to defend her energy and environmental policy ideas.
“I actually challenged AOC to debates multiple times, and she has refused to debate me,” Greene told Fox News’s Hannity Tuesday. “I wanted to specifically debate her on the Green New Deal. I wanted to challenge her as a successful business owner and an American taxpayer on her ideas that will completely change the way our country functions — not only with energy but our entire economy.”
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“But AOC couldn’t do it,” Greene continued. “You want to know why? She’s chicken. She isn’t brave enough to defend those ideas because they’re not her own. They came out of a think tank, and she put her name on them.”
Greene blasted Ocasio-Cortez and her Democratic counterparts, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), for being “more interested in equity and inclusion” than addressing “infrastructure in our crumbling nation,” referencing the train derailment in eastern Ohio.
“That’s where we have real danger in our country. Pete was never qualified for the job,” Greene also said. “I believe we need to haul him in our committees and start questioning him over what’s actually happening in his department. Because train derailment is happening every day, and now thousands of people, birds, and animals — they’re all sick. We don’t know the consequences of this horrible accident in East Palestine.”
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“We have people like Ilhan Omar. She wants to crack down on corporate greed when it comes to rails and the privately owned sections of rails, but really what we need to do is make sure that our rails are safe,” she added. “Democrats passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, and only $5 billion went towards rail safety. This is a failure.”
Greene noted that most of the infrastructure bill’s money is going to Green New Deal programs, including efforts to create electric vehicle batteries that rely on fossil fuels for production and “make us dependent on countries like China.”