Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Dems Are Winning On Climate

On Wednesday, Chris Hayes had a wide-ranging interview with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

ON CLIMATE:

CHRIS HAYES (HOST): One of the challenges President Joe Biden faces in our current information environment and a Donald Trump media environment is how to communicate just how much this administration, Democrats, and Congress have actually gotten done. It has been a lot. For example, the last two years have been the most productive years for U.S. climate efforts. We are still not on a trajectory to meet our Paris climate targets. But for the first time, it actually seems like they have a shot at making it. Almost entirely thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, passed without a single Republican vote. One of the people who first championed the early version of the climate plan is Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Carcez; she joins me now.

Congresswoman, it is great to have you one. One of the things I encounter in social media-dominated spaces where most of the people under 30 get their news is that there is a kind of, really intenseMorrison, and kind of negativity that just sort of comes with eight meanings, more than anything. But it shapes people's real politics. And when I tell people that emissions are at all-time lows and solar deployment is setting all-time highs, people don't know we've actually had a pretty good few years on climate stuff.

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