Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., NY) credited America’s enemies, including Syria, North Korea, and Iran, for doing more to combat climate change than the United States during a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday.
“They’re taking their lead from the president, a man who is so willfully ignorant and foolish that he thinks he’s clever by ridiculing the global scientific consensus on climate change whenever it snows,” Schumer said about Republican lawmakers.
“Well, the American people are not laughing. They weren’t laughing when a U.S. Senator brought a snowball to the floor of this chamber to mock climate science. They weren’t laughing when President Trump called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.”
“The rest of the world isn’t laughing either, not when basically every country in the world, including Syria, North Korea, Iran are working together to reduce carbon emissions while the Trump administration has forced the United States to sit on the sidelines,” Schumer continued.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) announced earlier this week that the Senate will vote on the Green New Deal resolution.
The legislation was introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.). Markey complained about McConnell allowing his resolution to be voted on and said McConnell was trying to “sabotage” the environmental movement.
Schumer appeared to relish at the opportunity to vote on the plan and told McConnell to “bring it on” and bring the Green New Deal resolution up for a vote.
In December, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said the United States is meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, despite no longer being part of the deal.
As part of the deal, the U.S. had pledged to cut its carbon emissions by 26-28 percent and provide $3 billion in aid to developing countries.
Last week, framers of the Green New Deal released a summary of their goals for drastically reshaping America’s economy and energy system.
The proposal called for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” and building “out high- speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.”
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If it were not for being able to LIE constantly
and with a stupid NYC accent,
Schmuck Chomper would have nothing to speak of.
Schumer is so full of crap . Oh yeah China , were people walk around wearing masks and air filters . Their rivers are sewers and the soil is massively contaminated .
Really what Schumer is doing is damage control for the new owners of the Demo-Green Socialist Party . The people pulling the financial strings are demanding Schumer dance for the money . Hillary did and look how that went . Shut those coal workers down .
So lets see how kill the cow , the airline industry , and all fossil fuel jobs flies this time around . One thing we know the Schumer Demo- Greens will be getting a lump of coal from Amazon and a great big thumbs down from
the Deplorables in fly over country .
Schumer just praised Syria, Iran and North Korea, the tri-axis of Evil. Dead pan, too.
Who is willfully ignorant and foolish? Chuck. The Unknown Comedian. Pull a paper bag over yer head, Chuck. Even when your serious, we laugh.
Chuckie-Sleaze and the Stupid Jackass Party what else will this Pinheaded pea-brain come up with besides telling to us what a total jerk he is
Chuck Schumer is an embarrassment to America. He is truly a cringe-worth buffoon.
The Liberal Party of British Columbia Canada were bought off by the “Clean ” industry and now electric customers are on the hook for power costs 3 times the market rate .
Anyone with a brain could have seen this coming and now the dumb asses in the MSM are all indignant while the Green /New Democrat Party(NDP)blame Liberals to deflect attention from their own $Billion dollar fraud , the approval of Site C dam .
If the Green / NDP were really concerned about the widows and orphans
why have they increased the job killing carbon tax ? Hurt feeings only go so far .
Really they know electric users are about to take another one up the arse
and they just want to lay the ground work to blame another corrupt batch of politicians .
The Liberals did enable $billions in organized crime money laundering through casinos and real estate which fluffed up the government take and absolutely screwed first time homeowners for a generation . And the response … crickets .
For Americans the equivalent is a Democrat /Green cocktail of socialists you are now seeing first hand . Kill the cows , airline industry , coal worker jobs . Good luck .
The US has done a better job reducing emissions under Trump than most industrial countries. China is increasing them with no end in sight. If the Senate Minority Leader does not know these facts, then he isn’t qualified for the job.
As long as the USA exports and outsources it’s manufacturing infrastructure emissions will drop . China wants to be paid for bankrupting the USA and the Democrats are happy to pay . The globalist agenda has been stalled by Pres Trump , that is all .