by Audrey Steb
The Daily Caller
Democrats are dropping the “Green New Deal” mantra despite their unbridled support for the far-left legislation just a few years ago, according to Axios.
Congressional Democrats have combined to mention the “Green New Deal” only six times in the past three months, the fewest mentions since the term became popular in fall 2018, Axios reported, citing data from the tracking software Quorum. While many Democrats at the state level continue to pursue strict climate goals as President Donald Trump fulfills a key campaign promise by bulldozing Biden-era green energy initiatives, the data reported by Axios indicates that Democrats are now shrinking away from a multi-trillion-dollar policy they once widely championed.
“When we first introduced the Green New Deal, we were told that our vision for the future was too aspirational. Four years later, we see core tenets of the Green New Deal reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act — the largest ever federal investment in fighting climate change, with a focus on creating good, green jobs,” Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said when reintroducing the Green New Deal in 2023 with Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. “But there is still much, much more to do to make environmental justice the center of U.S. climate policy.”
Though Cortez and Markey re-introduced the legislation in 2023, they have not done so in this session. While former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a multitude of green energy subsidies that mirror the Green New Deal, some Democrats argued that the bill did not go far enough on climate issues…
“We’re at a remarkable point in the evolution of climate and it’s definitely trending downward right now. But nothing’s over,” senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute Steve Milloy told the DCNF previously. “Climate-change crazed Democrats “may have to lay low for a while, but they’ll be back. This is one of their best scams.”
