‘Haters gonna hate & deniers will deny’: AOC defends Greta Thunberg from Mnuchin criticism

Published January 23, 2020 5:53pm ET



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after he made comments belittling the environmental activism of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

Mnuchin, 57, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that Thunberg could lecture world leaders on how to combat climate change “after she goes and studies economics in college.”

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