Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Jonah Goldberg: ‘Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation’
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) defended her Green New Deal initiative after The Dispatch editor Jonah Goldberg called the legislation a “fantasy.”
“Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday.
Hey there! Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on.
The Green New Deal is a non-binding resolution of values. It does not have a price tag or CBO score and costs us $0 if passed.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 14, 2020
Goldberg, a former National Review columnist, responded to a different tweet from the congresswoman suggesting higher taxes for the rich could have enhanced the administration’s response to the virus. He said she “could confiscate every penny held by every billionaire and multimillionaire in America and it wouldn’t cover a fraction of your Green New Deal fantasy.”
The Green New Deal is a resolution Ocasio-Cortez introduced last year that seeks to move the U.S. toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
“The Green New Deal is a non-binding resolution of values. It does not have a price tag or CBO score and costs us $0 if passed,” the congresswoman tweeted.
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