Topic: Why Biden can't use the 14th amendment to indebt the United States against congress's wishes.
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#110,982
...all Sen. Warren needs to do is read the 14th Amendment to learn that it gives the president no power to “use” it to create more debt.
Some Senate Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to “use” the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit by executive decree. For example, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) stated:
“The 14th Amendment is not anyone’s first choice. The first choice is that the Republicans raise the debt ceiling because the United States government never, ever, ever, ever defaults on its legal obligations. But if Kevin McCarthy is going to push the United States over a cliff, then it becomes the president’s responsibility to find an alternative path.”
As a former law member of the Ohio bar and a senator for more than 10 years, Warren almost certainly knows that keeping the current debt ceiling doesn’t cause default. It merely forces the government to run a balanced budget—something the government should be doing anyway.
The House passed a bill increasing the National Debt, but the democrats aren't accepting it because there's no money for the their pet "Woke" projects. The democrats need to pass the bill created by the House. Why is it democrats are always wanting to cheat at everything they do & feel that USA laws don't apply to them?
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Budget shouldn't be balanced. It should run big deficits or small-medium surpluses depending on the state of the economy. Balanced budget is for babies. Anyway, if McCarthy wants Biden to spend less money, he should work to pass a bill that Biden will sign that cuts the budget. It's incoherent to say that Biden must by law spend money allocated in the previous budget, but also that Biden may not spend more than some arbitrary number of $X trillion. Either he has the legal authorization to spend the money, or he doesn't. Trying to argue he both can and cannot do something is gibberish. In any event where the law is unclear, Biden should just do what he thinks is right, which is to spend the money lawfully appropriated by Congress. I don't think even this nutjob SCOTUS would prevent him.