The Green New Deal is exploiting the popularity of social democratic ideals as sugar coating to disguise the globalists' poison pill. According to reporting by Inside Philanthropy, institutional funders made up about 55 percent of Sunrise Movement's 2018 budget, which includes donors like the Rockefeller Family Fund, Wallace Global Fund,. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, has released her Green New Deal plan to the nation — and to great applause from the Democratic Party. The centerpiece of the plan is to move to 100. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and U.S. Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts, speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation to promote clean energy programs outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and U.S. Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts, speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation to promote clean energy programs outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019.

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a 60-day moratorium on new leases for oil and gas on federal lands. It's part of the Biden administration's response to the 'climate change crisis.' The goal, according to the administration, is to eliminate the use of coal, oil and natural gas by the year 2035.

The Ute Indian Tribe, the second largest Indian reservation in the United States, raised concerns about the executive order, saying it not only attacks their economy but threatens their sovereignty. Four Democrats have already come out in opposition to the executive order. Their primary concern was eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs while the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic rages on.

When NBC News' White House Correspondent Geoff Bennett pointed to similarities to the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) couldn't help but take credit for the move.

It’s striking how much of Biden’s climate executive actions reflect major elements of the Green New Deal — tackling climate change while addressing economic/racial injustice — without actually *being the Green New Deal. Some political sleight of hand.

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 27, 2021

It’s almost as if we helped shape the platform ?? https://t.co/zXn3VcAbYw

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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 27, 2021

Progressives said they would do everything in their power to push Biden towards a far-left agenda. This is further proof that they're cashing in on their promises. These executive orders are just the beginning.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, has released her Green New Deal plan to the nation — and to great applause from the Democratic Party.

The centerpiece of the plan is to move to 100 percent renewable energy (wind and solar power) within 10 years.

How does eliminating the industry — fossil fuels — that has produced the fastest growth of new jobs over the past decade, eliminate poverty?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, has released her Green New Deal plan to the nation — and to great applause from the Democratic Party.

This multi-trillion dollar manifesto isn’t just about saving the planet from climate change — though that is the centerpiece — but includes a whole “social justice” agenda that includes everything from Medicare for All, to a guaranteed job for all Americans, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, and even regulations on how often you will be able to drive your car and fly in an airplane.

The centerpiece of the plan is to move to 100 percent renewable energy (wind and solar power) within 10 years. No one with any knowledge of energy use and production believes this is even remotely possible given that we are today at about 8 percent renewable — even after $150 billion of taxpayer handouts to green energy producers.

But even to get anywhere close to 100 percent renewable energy over the next 10 or 30 years would be economically crippling with taxpayer costs that would exceed $2 trillion while displacing some 10 million Americans in high-paying oil and gas industries from their jobs.

Energy costs for home heating and electric power would likely double or triple, as a Heritage Foundation study shows — and that’s simply to get to 50 percent renewable. Without U.S. mass production of shale oil, gas prices at the pump could easily reach $5 a gallon. Price hikes like these are what incited the riots in Paris last month.

Initially, the Green New Deal planned to abolish nuclear and natural gas from the energy mix — which is absurd given that shale gas has contributed to a major reduction in carbon emissions and nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases whatsoever. Along with hydropower, these are the cleanest forms of energy today. A recent GND fact sheet published by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s offices has been disavowed by Democratic Senate backer Ed Markey over the dogmatic anti-nuclear stance.

This is why the GND frothy rhetoric about this “national, industrial, economic mobilization” being a “historic opportunity to eliminate poverty and make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation,” is disoriented from reality.

How does eliminating the industry — fossil fuels — that has produced the fastest growth of new jobs over the past decade, eliminate poverty? Are we really going to convert oil workers into wind farmers?

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There are other utopian ideas to advance this green agenda, including a job-guarantee program, universal heath care, and tens of billions of dollars for new mass transit and electric cars. In one of the original versions of the Green New Deal, the plan requires “replacing non-essential individual means of transport with high-quality and modern mass transit.” No more driving the kids to soccer practice. Everybody on the bus.

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Miss Ocasio-Cortez says that to replace the millions of jobs the GND would destroy, the new guaranteed-jobs program would work like the original New Deal. But despite the fake history of the Great Depression, FDR’s make-work programs, such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), failed miserably in their quest to end joblessness and poverty. During the eight years of the WPA, the unemployment rate averaged above 12 percent, some three times higher than today.

The architects of the GND are to be commended for acknowledging that this “transformation” of the U.S. economy won’t come cheap. They place the price tag at roughly $1 trillion a year.

These costs will be absorbed by Federal Reserve Bank borrowing (i.e., running up the budget deficit), and “various taxation tools including taxes on carbon and other emissions and progressive wealth taxes.” Say hello to those 70 percent tax rates liberals have been touting.

We will need these to pay for this deindustrialization of America.

Conservatives have tended to laugh and sneer at the GND (me included), but these frontal assaults on free market capitalism are quickly becoming Democratic orthodoxy. Green is the new red, as the saying goes, and unless conservatives defeat and discredit these dingbat ideas, Donald Trump will be proven wrong. America will be on its way to becoming a socialist nation.

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This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times