Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” is more about drastically overhauling the American economy than it is about combatting climate change, her top aide admitted.
Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, made the revealing admission in a meeting with Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate director in May.
A Washington Post reporter accompanied Chakrabarti to the meeting for a magazine profile published Wednesday.
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts.
“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” Chakrabarti added.
Ocasio-Cortez’s press office didn’t immediately return an inquiry regarding whether Chakrabarti’s admission would undermine the congresswoman’s Green New Deal advocacy.
The Green New Deal calls for a number of hard-left proposals, including getting the U.S. entirely off of fossil fuels within 10 years, providing universal health care, basic income programs, and job guarantees.
The proposal also calls for “social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative and public ownership.”
Transitioning to “clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources” within 10 years — just one of the Green New Deal’s expensive proposals — could cost more than $5 trillion, according to one estimate.
The Green New Deal in its entirety could cost up to $93 trillion over a decade, according to another estimate.
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It never ever had anything to do with the Enviroment and Climate Change its all about Agenda 21 and control of the masses just like with Gun Control and all under the United Nations and its band of Blue Helmets Imperial Storm Troopers
To anyone who reads this comment, the “Roosevelt Conservation Caucus” announced this week is a good start to some sensible, REALITY based discussions about energy & the environment. The Green New Deal is a RAW DEAL. Instaed of all the climate hysteria, the conversation needs to shift to the U.S ENERGY TRANSITION and attendant environmental stewardship, period. All the rest of this is just NOISE…
If they talk long enough, communists always reveal their true intentions.
Ten years ago, on the golf course, a socialist friend of mine said something that angered me. I had complained about all the bureaucratic roadblocks to getting ahead. He suggested that people who try to get ahead were the real problem. Intellectually, he’s a light – weight, but he’s memorized the PC Bible, verse for verse. So he punches above his weight in certain circles. Otherwise, he’s a lawn mower.
But …but isn’t the science settled ? Don’t we only have 12 years ?
You mean it’s about UN communist ambitions of one world government as Maurice Strong UN bureaucrat admitted over 30 years ago ?
What oh what is the Democrat party going to do ?
Alt lefties threatening to destroy the USA economy with trillions of save the earth spending and a complete rip out of the open market that made America great . Democrats keep shooting own goals and now the man behind the curtain is throwing his wallet into the ring .
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