Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez – a truly dangerous duo – announced they plan to introduce their new legislation, the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act this afternoon. The Washington Post reports: The bill, dubbed the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, would use seven grant programs to upgrade housing units into carbon-neutral communities with organic grocery stores, on-site child care and community gardens. Residents of public housing would be given preference in hiring to renovate those units. … The bill would cost between $119 billion and $172 billion over the next decade, according to estimates developed by…

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez botched the rollout of the “Green New Deal,” which has now become a punchline for everything wrong with eco-socialism, it seems she’s vying for a redo. Yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez joined Oregon Democratic Rep Earl Blumenauer and Senator Bernie Sanders to announce they plan to introduce a joint “climate emergency declaration.” Their hope is to encourage Congress to pass the “emergency resolution” to declare a crisis. “There is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes,” they wrote. “In order for us to enact the scales of solution, we have to acknowledge the…