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sprinkleeninow

(20,952 posts)
Wed May 24, 2023, 03:50 PM May 2023

Yahoo News: Can Biden use the 14th Amdt. to thwart a debt default without tanking the economy?

https://www.aol.com/biden-14th-amendment-thwart-debt-153139305.html

Excerpt:
Biden is correct that invoking the Fourteenth Amendment’s passing mention of the public debt leaves open the door to further litigation. But the move would deprive Republicans of the political safe harbor that comes with pretending to be negotiating. If Republicans or their allies in the Supreme Court super-legislature want to take the steps necessary to reimpose the threat of default, they’d have to step forward and do it on their own. It would no longer be on Biden or the Democrats.” — Jason Linkins
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Yahoo News: Can Biden use the 14th Amdt. to thwart a debt default without tanking the economy? (Original Post) sprinkleeninow May 2023 OP
How about Biden saying I have the duty to pay the debt Congress authorized doc03 May 2023 #1
We shall see the final outcome. Just that it's nerve-racking until then. sprinkleeninow May 2023 #2

doc03

(37,835 posts)
1. How about Biden saying I have the duty to pay the debt Congress authorized
Wed May 24, 2023, 04:17 PM
May 2023

under the Consitution, so I am forced to raise the revenues to pay for the their debt. That is about what Lawrence Tribe said, it is the president's duty
under the 14th to pay our bills.

sprinkleeninow

(20,952 posts)
2. We shall see the final outcome. Just that it's nerve-racking until then.
Wed May 24, 2023, 04:50 PM
May 2023

I have 'faith' in our CiC. I have to. The reptilicans are really really showing their true colors. They are exemplary of cruelty, destruction, selfish and self-serving motive.

I wrote the WH 2x this week. Just relaying my disquietude. Esp. concerning SS payments.

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