Veronique de Rugy: Green New Deal would be hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars in federal commitment

Veronique de Rugy: Green New Deal would be hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars in federal commitment

If there’s a word that’s not necessarily negative one could use to describe the Green New Deal, it would be “ambitious.” The deal has so much wrapped into it that it’s hard to tell which components are designed to save the environment and which ones are intended to destroy the economy.

Estimates put costs for the “green side” of the resolution at somewhere between $12-$20 trillion. Then, there’s the Medicare-for-All component that is estimated at $32 trillion over a decade.

And that’s just the start.This isn’t just a “green” deal. It’s a hodgepodge of policy proposals that include massively growing the […]

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