Andrew Harnik/ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is expected to release a resolution outlining the core tenets of a Green New Deal as early as this week. The Green New Deal resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) are expected to release this week includes language about spurring similar efforts abroad, setting the stage for a debate on how climate change fits into Democrats’ foreign policy visions. It offers Democrats a counter-argument to President Donald Trump’s stance that global efforts to deal with climate change disadvantage the United States, and it takes account of how domestic changes as sweeping as what’s proposed under a Green New Deal will affect other countries. “Thinking of a Green New Deal, not just as strictly domestic policy but as a pillar of American foreign policy, becomes a really evocative ... idea.”Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2019 23:26 UTC