​What Exactly Is the Green New Deal?

The Green New Deal is an ambitious, risky, possibly brilliant, and definitely controversial plan to slow climate change via a broad, progressive economic stimulus package for the USA.
 
Introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it calls for a 10-year mobilization to make the US carbon neutral. Some call it the litmus test for 2020 Democrats. Republicans say it’s a socialist plot for taking away your cars, your cows, and your ice cream.
 
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