Fiscally-conservative Democrats have declared war on the Green New Deal | Kate Aronoff

The so-called Blue Dog Coalition of centrist Democrats want to prohibit federal deficit - and kill the Green New DealUtah representative Ben McAdams, a Democrat, warned ominously this week that a "day of reckoning is coming." It's the kind of sober language typically used to describe a climate crisis which - if we continue on with business as usual - could end human civilization as we know it. McAdams, though, was describing a decidedly less grave threat, if it can be considered a threat at all: the federal deficit.He and 26 other members of the so-called Blue Dog Coalition - centrist and fiscally-conservative Democrats - are pushing for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit the federal government from running a deficit if there isn't a war or recession happening. Social Security and Medicare would be spared from the brutal spending cuts the amendment would bring about ... but that's it. Continue reading...