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113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

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The 14th Amendment and the House Debt Ceiling

Biden has to be prepared to do an end run around the debt ceiling, he says. He could say his lawyers have advised him that my constitutional duty requires me to ignore this thing,. That appears to be a live possibility. There are some more exotic ways of dealing with this, which are gimmicky but then the whole situation is fundamentally gimmicky.

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