Copyright ©2020 PJmedia.com/Salem Media. She has referred to ICE detention centers as “concentration camps,” and an antifa terrorist tried to blow up one of them, echoing her rhetoric. “Serving NY-14 and fighting for working class families in Congress has been the greatest honor, privilege, & responsibility of my life,” AOC tweeted. The green boondoggle would cost approximately $49.109 trillion in the first ten years, and AOC would support a 70 percent top tax rate to pay for it. But wait! I can tell you now, the cost of pursuing a Green New Deal will be far less than the cost of not passing it.” The aforementioned FAQ sheet named “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” as one of its objectives — an aggressive and no doubt costly pursuit. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (at right) hold a news conference for their proposed “Green New Deal” on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019. However, she shouldn’t be allowed to claim, at the same time, to be saving the world. So, what does Ocasio-Cortez believe?

suggested would prove insufficient. Your free subscription includes news and specials sent by email in accordance with our trusted Privacy Policy. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the radical leftist congresswoman associated with the Democratic Socialists of America whose Green New Deal has pushed the Democrats toward socialism, won reelection on Tuesday night. Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on. Pennsylvania Judge: Provisional Ballots from People Who Already Voted to Be Set Aside, Reviewed, Dan Crenshaw Spars with Rep. Taylor Greene over Trump’s Fraud Claims: ‘Start Acting’ Like a Congresswoman, Sen. Sasse Calls on Trump to Present ‘Real Evidence’ of Voter Fraud, There Are Two Republican Parties. But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in ... Washington Post congressional reporter Erica Werner is reporting, more or less live on Twitter, about a conference call among House Democrats discussing why the 2020 elections did not go anywhere near as well as they expected. As she told NPR, “even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us.”. Despite all this, Democratic nominee Joe Biden chose AOC to co-chair his climate change task force. Get our conservative analysis delivered right to you. The first five years of the Green New Deal would cost at least $250,000 per household. She beat challenger John Cummings 69 percent to 30 percent. Which it is, of course, but the election also provides evidence of a country strangely united — united in spite of itself. AOC also appears to have put her boyfriend on the public payroll. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil. Join PJ Media VIP TODAY and use the promo code LAWANDORDER to get 25% off your VIP membership. Will climate change alter the course of human history for the worse if the Green New Deal is not enacted, with even more radical legislation to follow it? She beat challenger John Cummings 69 percent to 30 percent.