Crow, Ocasio-Cortez Advance Alternate Foreign Policy Vision for Working People at Munich Security Conference
MUNICH — Today at the Munich Security Conference, Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) advanced their alternate vision for U.S. foreign policy, grounded in working-class priorities and true American values. Their remarks followed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address before the Conference and contrasted the corruption and elite-driven vision of the Trump Administration against a better way forward that truly responds to working Americans’ needs.
“We need a national security and foreign policy that looks like America and has the experiences of the American people,” Congressman Crow said in his remarks. “It means partnerships that are rooted in fairness and that deliver for working-class folks everywhere.”
“What we know is that isolating ourselves from the world will deliver disastrous consequences at home and abroad,” he continued. “Our foreign policy is being turned into an extortion ring for Big Oil, for the Trump family, for elites. They’re bullying our partners and allies… We want strength and peace, but we don’t want to be extorting and bullying our friends. We want to be a force for good.”
“We are interested in a U.S.-European alliance that’s rooted in substantive and strategic shared priorities that advance the working class of all nations,” Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez said in her remarks.
“We want to make sure that we dive deeply into shared innovation, investment, strategic priorities, and trade policies that ensure the benefits of that trade actually benefit working class people and that we restrain ourselves from the military interventions of our past,” she continued.
Crow, a former Army Ranger and paratrooper, serves on the House Armed Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Ocasio-Cortez spoke Friday at the Munich Security Conference to offer a working class perspective on U.S. foreign policy.
Crow previously presented his new affirmative vision for the future of American global leadership in an October speech at the Center for American Progress. Crow’s proposal seeks to reassert congressional authority in foreign policy; ensure America lives up to its values on the global stage; root out corruption at home and abroad; and recruit new talent to bolster foreign policy institutions.
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