Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been in the spotlight since she helped raise millions of dollars to help Texans who were the victims of a fierce winter storm that left millions without power and clean water. But her purpose was not completely philanthropic, according to Justin Haskins, executive editor and a research fellow at the Heartland Institute.
“Never one to let a crisis go to waste, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blamed Texas’s Republican-led government for the power outages and then, quite remarkably, alleged, ‘The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal,’ Haskins wrote in a commentary published by Fox News on Sunday.
The Green New Deal, also dreamed up and promoted by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), is crafted to transform the American economy and infrastructure — including the energy sector, where fossil fuels would be banned and wind and solar power put in
