Influence Watch Episode #110: What the Green New Deal Would Mean

Last year, the hard-left—pressure groups like the Sunrise Movement, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and labor unions like the Service Employees International Union—presented the “Green New Deal,” a package of radical environmentalist policy demands that ranged (according to an “FAQ” document that the Green New Dealers denounced and memory-holed shortly after its release) from banning air travel to retrofitting every building in the United States. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell denounced it as a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy”; Saikat Chakrabarti, one of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s close allies and a former aide, admitted the Green New Deal was “a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy” plan.

But what would the plan actually mean for consumers and families? Today, I’m joined by Jason Isaac, Senior Manager for the “Life: Powered” project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) to dig into that question and other issues related to energy both in Texas and nationally.

Listen to “Episode 110: What the Green New Deal Would Mean” on Spreaker.

• Life:Powered: About Us
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: Green New Deal Puts Texans in the Red
• Influence Watch: Sunrise Movement
• Influence Watch: Saikat Chakrabarti
• Influence Watch: Bill McKibben
• Influence Watch: 350.org