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STUDY: Green New Deal Would Cost Some States More Than $1,000,000,000,000 [Correction]

Joseph Curl

Correction: A typo in CEI’s original report led to inflated data from the study by one order of magnitude (for example, trillion instead of billion), including the number provided in the original headline of this article. The article has been revised to reflect the accurate numbers.

By nearly every estimate, the Green New Deal environmental plan pushed by Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would carry a hefty price tag — one study put the cost at $51 trillion, another at $93 trillion.

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