Stuart Varney and I try to take Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal seriously, but it isn’t easy. It would plunge the U.S. into deep recession, hurt middle-class workers and eventually lead to an economy with enormously high-cost energy and much slower growth.
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