GLASGOW , SCOTLAND — Less than a week after standing with her progressive counterparts against the bipartizan infrastructure nib , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez ispresenting a united front with Democratsat theUN climate negotiation in Glasgow . The Congresswoman is in Scotland as part of a delegation of U.S. House representatives that arrived as the UN talk entered their all important second week and outside delegates process to forge out a globose tidy sum .
One of the first public events schedule for AOC when she touched down in Scotland was a public panel with Reps . Joe Neguse , Veronica Escobar , Mike Levin , and Sean Casten , all Democrats who had also just landed in Glasgow . At the board , the Congresswoman had what is , for her , a somewhat surprising message .
“ America ’s back — at COP , on the outside level as a leader in climate activeness and drawdown , ” she said .
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at COP26Photo: Ian Forsyth (Getty Images)
AOC went on to blab about the intersection of climate modification , autochthonal and racial justice , and fossil fuel influence she observed before she run for Congress while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 . She also discussed how she now sees those themes mull over in the climate computer program the Biden organisation is bringing to the international stage . The U.S. is “ not just back ” at its first bull after the Trump earned run average , she said . “ We ’re unlike , and we ’re more just , and we ’re more open to questioning what is politically potential . ”
Never exactly a shrinking violet on the Hill , AOC has not been shy about criticizing what many progressives see as a all unequal set of climate policy that are being hammer out on the Hill . She was one of six House penis , let in all member of the Squad , who voted against the bipartizan infrastructure bill , passed by the House latterly last hebdomad , that was class from the Build Back Better Act after some restrained Democrats convey fiscal concerns about that greenback .
In an Instagram hold out on Sunday , AOCexplainedthat voting for the infrastructure bill , which would lock in emission addition thanks to the expanding upon of bridges , route , and other shipping networks , without voting for the climate measuring in the Build Back Better Act made her uneasy . “ I can not vote to increase our emissions without a committal to draw them down , ” she allege .
But the Democrats as a whole must have a pretty fire mood group chat going , with an pressing message that ’s arisen above all the intra - party scrap : show the world in Glasgow that the U.S. has its shit together . They seem to realize that the U.S. ca n’t say it ’s a clime leader while seeming like a total mess at home . Like Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts , whotold Earther Saturdaythat Build Back well was “ very close ” to drop dead and that any outstanding issues were not climate - related , all five Democrats on Tuesday ’s panel , including AOC , expressed confidence that it would presently become jurisprudence , and that the U.S. can feasibly take the victory it needs to put on a good front for the world here in Glasgow .
“ When we pass the Build Back Better Act — I’m going to claim it , when , ” AOC said at one point during the panel , extract some cheerfulness from the crowd for the confidence that the legislation would pass Washington ’s partisan gridlock .
Despite AOC ’s compliments , there ’s a host of Indigenous and fatal and brown drawing card who wouldabsolutelyquestionthe Biden administration’scommitmentsto the report she babble about , as well as how the U.S. is conducting itself at the lecture . And , never to be simply a cheerleader for the most reform-minded clime administration of all time , AOC signaled that the U.S. still has body of work to do .
“ We have not recovered our moral federal agency [ on climate ] , ” she said during the panel . “ We have to actually extradite the action in parliamentary procedure to get the respectfulness and potency internationally . We have to draw down emissions to get credit for being committed on climate change . It ’s really that simple . ”
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