- House and Senate Democrats pledged today that funding for a Civilian Climate Corps would be included in the upcoming budget reconciliation bill
- Majority Leader Schumer vowed to get the ‘biggest, boldest CCC possible’
- Ocasio-Cortez said half the funds would go to helping urban areas
- The initiative’s funding would be part of Dems’ sweeping $3.5trillion budget
- Dems want CCC members to be paid a minimum of $15 per hour plus benefits
- AOC said roles within the Climate Corps would be ‘good union jobs’
- She also said the program would be ‘even bigger and better’ than FDR’s landmark climate corps established in 1933 to help provide relief during the Depression
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