How would the Green New Deal handle a COVID outbreak?
The Green New Deal, proposed early in 2019 by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, would transition the US economy entirely away from fossil fuels within ten years while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and health care guarantee. It would also, according to proponents advance 'social, economic, racial, regional, and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative public ownership.' All told, the proposal will cost up to $93 trillion in new government spending over ten years, according to a recent report by the conservative American Action Forum. 1