Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are holding a press conference on Thursday surrounded by climate change and affordable housing activists to introduce legislation aimed at putting a piece of the Green New Deal resolution into law.

Our team has been working on the Green New Deal for Public Housing for months, engaging residents & experts. It takes principles of the GND & creates economic stimulus for working people to decarbonize & center frontline communities. Read about it:https://t.co/kuhG7dwjVV — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 14, 2019

“Our team has been working on the Green New Deal for Public Housing for months, engaging residents & experts,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It takes principles of the GND & creates economic stimulus for working people to decarbonize & center frontline communities.”

Watch the press conference live at Breitbart News at 3 p.m. EST.

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