Thread by @ryangrim

Democrats are putting about 20 billion behind a top priority of @sunrisemvmt, their Civilian Climate Corps, but the legislation also throws some of those billions at traditional Americorps, which is causing consternation in the caucus /1

Americorps is a small ($1 billion) program that is poorly managed and doesn't have a ton of support in cities where its active. Some Dems want the DoL to run it instead. I talked to Jamaal Bowman about it in this week's podcast theintercept.com/2021/10/28/dec…

Also asked AOC and Bernie Sanders about it this week and both are supportive of keeping it in Americorps, despite the program's problems.

One argument is the new money would overcome the management difficulties, but it could also become a boondoggle and undermine the entire notion, and Sunrise's credibility, if it's a giant mess

Actually CCC is $30 billion not 20

Currently Americorps pays $7/hr and this’ll raise it to $15, which is what they mean in large part by the funding fixing a major problem. And DoL isn’t an ideal solution either.