Union leader says Green New Deal would make infrastructure bill 'absolutely impossible'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

The president of one of the largest construction unions in the country warned the Green New Deal will make it “absolutely impossible” for lawmakers to pass an infrastructure bill.

“The things in the Green New Deal should be dealt with Climate Change Committee and not tied to infrastructure,” Terry O’Sullivan, General President of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton and Jamal Simmons.

“It has been almost impossible to figure out how we’re going to fund infrastructure and with the Green New Deal, we feel it’s going to be absolutely impossible to ever get an infrastructure bill,” O’Sullivan continued.

Senate Democrats could face a vote as early as next week on the Green New Deal. The plan aims to get the U.S. running on 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 with the hope of creating thousands of jobs, and contains proposals to deal with infrastructure.

Read more: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/431145-union-leader-says-green-new-deal-would-make-infrastructure-impossible

[msongs]

1. when it comeds to union presidents opinions, follow the $$$ nt

[Turbineguy]

2. Well, we'd better

keep Trump in that case.

[Dorn]

3. Lack of Green New Deal make human life "absolutely impossible"

[shanny]

4. The Hill. 'nuff said.

(adding anyway) DUH! Neither infrastructure nor the green new deal will pass with the pukes in charge of the Senate and White House (despite rump's edifice complex), but hey! let's try to drive a wedge between the party and unions. It's what we do.

Why is this here, at all?

[SHRED]

5. Vote this leader out

That's the beauty of unions.
They are democracies.

[marylandblue]

6. Green New Deal includes infrastructure, so I don't see a problem.

[lagomorph777]

8. Infrastructure is absolutely essential for environmental preservation

Green energy (solar, wind, geothermal)
Mass transit (rail especially)
Energy efficiency upgrades (residential, commercial)

and probably many more that I'm not thinking of...

[haele]

9. Added infrastructure and upgrade of existing grid? Or just adding to the old.

We must upgrade our old 1960's/70's era regional Grids to handle what we have now, as well as what we might need with renewables.
I've seen too many patches and bandaid fixes over the years; we're eventually going to have to rip it all out and replace it before it collapses around us. Not just patch in some more transformer banks and controllers into the old existing systems.

Haele

[More_Cowbell]

7. Oh no! What will happen to the (It's Always) Infrastructure Week? nt

[stuffmatters]

10. So our Country can't afford to walk & chew gum at the same time?

Good example of tunnel vision, ignorant divisiveness.