Biden has suggested that he may agree with them, but doesn't think there's time for it to actually play out. The 14th amendment says in part that the public debt of the United States Shall not be questioned and so the idea here is that the debt ceilings very existence is unconstitutional and that Biden can just like ignore it. But even if they weren't a narrowness of McCarthy's majority I think makes it very hard mathematically for them to pass anything.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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