AOC: ‘We Play Hokey Pokey with USAID, The Paris Climate Agreement ... I Don’t Think That Is Good for the Country’

‘What is best is when we sign an agreement, we stay in it so they know that are commitments are reflective of our values’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “(laughs) The single biggest? Well, I think, zooming out beyond just this presidential administration, I think that what we are seeing is, between President Trump’s first administration, pulling out of long-standing international agreements. Then you have President Biden who is opting in, back into some of them, such as, for example, with the Paris climate accords. And then you have President Trump that’s elected again. I think what we are seeing now is this idea that U.S. foreign policy is — and some of our more basic foundational values-based commitments seem to be enacted based on the partisanship of whoever is elected, that we play hokey pokey with USAID, with the Paris Climate Agreement, with many of our commitments. And I don’t think that that is good for the country.” 

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