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Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package Will Include AOC’s ‘Civilian Climate Corps’

Ben Zeisloft
Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package Will Include AOC’s ‘Civilian Climate Corps’
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The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will create a “Civilian Climate Corps.”

As The Daily Wire reported in June, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) pushed Democratic leadership to pass the “Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act” using the reconciliation process — a method by which Congress can enact budget bills with a simple majority in the Senate instead of a sixty-vote, filibuster-proof majority. 

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