Other tweets from right-wing media influencers insinuating that Democrats care more about a Green New Deal than a relief proposal included Trump campaign Strategic Communications Director Marc Lotter and Women for America First Chair Amy Kremer. Breitbart News highlighted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), who echoed McConnell’s earlier speech by claiming, “We're here trying to fight for the man and woman on the street in our home towns and yet they're fighting for the Green New Deal!”

The Green New Deal attacks were not just relegated to Twitter -- they also predictably made their way to Fox News personalities. Fox prime-time host Sean Hannity mentioned the Green New Deal on his March 23 radio program, stating that Democrats “are willing to hold up aid to American workers and aid to small business and aid to companies that are laying off people left and right and their businesses are shut down as a result of all of this because they want a new green deal.” In the opening monologue to his Fox News show later that night, he again mentioned the climate resolution, stating that Democrats “want their Green New Deal one way or another.”

On The Five, co-host Jesse Watters stated that “the dillydallying by Nancy [Pelosi], by inserting the Green New Deal into a rescue package, has every American thinking ‘what are you doing?’”

On Tucker Carlson Tonight, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) -- who earlier repeated McConnell’s talking point in a tweet -- stated that Democrats “basically, they want the Green New Deal” in the stimulus package.

In fact, the Green New Deal was mentioned on Fox News over a dozen times during March 23 and 24, either by airing McConnell’s speech about coronavirus legislation or other commentaries around it.

Finally, the talking point attacking the Green New Deal made its way to President Donald Trump, who is no stranger to telling extreme lies about it. He tweeted about it during the night of March 23, and again on the morning of March 24. While speaking on the relief bill during a Fox News town hall later that day, he stated, “We had a really good, solid deal … all of a sudden they start throwing in Green New Deal stuff!”

The Green New Deal is NOT included in any coronavirus relief package, but that doesn’t stop right-wingers from continuing to lie about it

McConnell falsely characterized two climate-related proposals that were included in the original relief bill as Green New Deal measures. They are not. One dealt with extending tax credits for the solar and wind industries, while the other proposed new regulations on airline emissions.

There is sound reasoning behind both of these ideas. For clean energy tax breaks, the chief operating officer of the American Council on Renewable Energy, Bill Parsons, noted: