Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) said the ideas behind the Green New Deal are “tantamount to genocide,” Axios reports.
He added: “That may be an overstatement but not by a whole lot.”
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Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) said the ideas behind the Green New Deal are “tantamount to genocide,” Axios reports.
He added: “That may be an overstatement but not by a whole lot.”
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