House Democrats Are Lining Up Behind What Could Be The Largest Expansion Of Government In Decades
- Democrats are lining up to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.”
- The proposal could be the largest expansion of government since the Great Society or New Deal.
- Ocasio-Cortez’s plan could cost tens of trillions of dollars.
Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a “Green New Deal,” which, while vague on details, could end up being
the largest expansion of government in decades.
As it stands, the “Green New Deal” is more aspirational than actual policy. Indeed, it takes its name from the New Deal of the 1930s, and its main backer, incoming Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, compared it to the Great Society of the 1960s.
More than 40 Democratic lawmakers
support the “Green New Deal” as part of a broad plan to fight global warming and bring about what they see as
“economic, social and racial justice.”