U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is connecting the Green New Deal with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal introduced in 1933.
“The implication is what the New Deal did for the Depression should be a model for the environment. There’s just on great big problem: the New Deal in the 1930’s didn’t work. It didn’t get us out of the Great Depression.”
During a hearing on the Senate floor Monday, Grassley pointed out the Depression didn’t end until the U.S.