Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Monday that she had successfully “forced” Republicans to take climate change seriously with the introduction of her Green New Deal.

“It’s true. The #GreenNewDeal, as much as GOP hiss, scream, storytell & cry about it, has forced even the most entrenched Tea Partiers into publicly abandoning their climate denial stance. The reason they’re so focused on discrediting the GND is because it’s a winning policy,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter.



It’s true.



The #GreenNewDeal, as much as GOP hiss, scream, storytell & cry about it, has forced even the most entrenched Tea Partiers into publicly abandoning their climate denial stance.



The reason they’re so focused on discrediting the GND is because it’s a winning policy. ⬇️ https://t.co/hzjchYZV6N — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2019



Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet included her retweeting comments she made to Vice News about her Green New Deal proposal.

“If we didn’t make climate a priority right now, they would still be sitting on their hands,” Ocasio-Cortez said to Vice.

“What is remarkable about this moment is that we’re not just changing the Democratic Party’s agenda; we’re changing the Republican agenda, too,” she added.

The statements follow Ocasio-Cortez claiming that Republicans were taking her too “literally” when she said we have 12 years to stop climate change.

“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it. Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter Sunday.

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This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.



Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.



But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019