Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has spent the past few weeks wrangling support for the Green New Deal, an ambitious resolution that aims to reorient the nation’s economy around green energy and jobs, while simultaneously cutting US carbon emissions. She secured the support of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the incoming chairman of the influential House Rules committee, on Monday, and on Tuesday morning, the Green New Deal took another huge leap forward, when Reps.