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Grassley connects Green New Deal with FDR’s “failed” New Deal

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. entered World War Two.

“Just like the original, the Green New Deal sounds like really bold action. But it’s really a jumble of half-cocked policies that will dampen economic growth and hurt jobs.”

The Green New Deal calls for sweeping environmental changes that Grassley says goes against everything the government should be doing to encourage economic growth and create jobs.