Can Tim Scott's Optimism Win Over The GOP?
FiveThirtyEight Politics
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The 14th Amendment and the Debt Ceiling
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.
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