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• AOC proposed to fully fund "the pensions of coal miners in West Virginia" at the town hall, while referencing GOP criticisms of how much it would cost to carry out the GND. She emphasized that they have to start somewhere, which could also include "rebuilding Flint."
• She also argued that fossil fuel jobs cannot be "better, more dignified and [with a] higher wage with a stronger labor movement behind it than new energy jobs," going forward.
• "What I'm tired of is us worrying more about the future of fossil fuels than worrying about the future of fossil fuel workers," she added.

Buzz: Ocasio-Cortez also responded to ongoing GOP criticisms on the Green New Deal, as they call it a socialist resolution and equate it to getting rid of cows and airplanes. "It is next level. I didn't expect them to make total fools of themselves."

Okay, where did the "cow" thing come from? AOC's office released a more informal FAQ alongside the Green New Deal resolution that goes beyond the finalized proposal, and one version throws a tongue-in-cheek mention to "farting cows" — as in, they'll still be around in 10 years, and that's why the GND goal is net-zero rather than zero emissions. AOC's spokesman Corbin Trent described the FAQ cow statement as "literally — clearly — irony,” per the Washington Post.

The bottom line: Some key proposals in the Green New Deal, or H.Res. 109, are achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonizing all the major segments of the economy, including power, manufacturing, buildings and transportation.

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Key facts about Elizabeth Warren:

• Current position: Senator from Massachusetts — 6 years served
• Age: 69
• Born: Oklahoma City
• Undergraduate: University of Houston
• Date candidacy announced: Feb. 9, 2018
• % of votes in line with Trump, per FiveThirtyEight: 13.2%
• Previous roles: Law professor; member of Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the $700 billion TARP bank bailout program; named by President Obama to be a special adviser for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Elizabeth Warren's stance on key issues:

• Wealth tax: She proposed a 2% tax on wealth beyond $50 million and a 3% tax on wealth above $1 billion.
• Green New Deal: Signed on as a co-sponsor of the proposal, after previously expressing support for the "idea" of the GND.
• Medicare For All: Co-sponsored Bernie Sanders' bill in September 2017.
• Capitalism: Said she identifies as a "Democrat capitalist," rather than a "democratic socialist." She told Pod Save America she sees "the value of markets and that they can produce a lot of good if they have rules."
• Big Tech: Proposed in March a plan to break up Google, Facebook and Amazon. It would prohibit companies with over $25 billion in revenue to act as operators and users of a platform and would install regulators to break up already-closed mergers.
• Marijuana: Signed on as a cosponsor of Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act to legalize weed at the federal level.
• Electoral college: Said in March she would support a plan to replace the electoral college with a national popular vote.

Key criticism of Elizabeth Warren:

• Warren has taken heat for her claims of Native American heritage. She commissioned a DNA test in the fall of 2018 to prove she had Cherokee ancestry, which she later apologized for. In February, the Washington Post unearthed a State Bar of Texas registration card in which she listed her race as American Indian.
• President Trump has seized on this issue, frequently pointing it out whenever he mentions her, and referring to Warren as "Pocahontas."

1 fun thing about Elizabeth Warren:

• She was a state debate champion in Oklahoma and graduated high school at 16.

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