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WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday she no longer suffers from “imposter syndrome” after hearing Republican Sen. Mike Lee’s pronouncement that “babies” are the solution to climate change.

“Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from imposter syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday.

Impostor syndrome leaves a person doubting their accomplishments and feeling like a fraud.

“But then they do things like this to clear it right up,” the New York Democrat continued.

“If this guy can be [a] Senator, you can do anything,” she added.

She then shared a tweet about Lee’s floor speech from earlier in the day as the Senate debated Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) scheduled a vote later Tuesday to force Democrats to go on record on the proposal.

Many plan to simply vote “present.”

Lee mocked an early, leaked draft of the Green New Deal that had called for ridding the country of cows and airplanes.

The Utah Republican said he feared that he wouldn’t be able to get through his floor speech with a “straight face” as he held up charts illustrating some of his own proposals — such as replacing airplanes with tauntauns, the mythical creature Luke Skywalker rode in “The Empire Strikes Back.”

“Climate change is no joke, but the Green New Deal is a joke,” he said.

Lee then shared his climate change solution.

“The solution to climate change won’t be found in political posturing or virtue signaling like this. It won’t be found in the federal government at all. You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President? In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world. Mr. President, this is the real solution to climate change: babies.”

Quoting an unnamed author, Lee argued that by having more children, the US would “boost its capacity to solve climate change.”

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