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On the Debt Ceiling, the White House Is Doing What It Said It Wouldn't Do

Odd Lots

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The Unchecked Power of the Debt Ceiling

Sally Kohn: If the debt ceiling allows the president to limit certain types of mandatory spending, what other situations do? Where is that extraordinary power coming from? And could a future president abuse it? She says there's all kinds of permutations where if you sort of like give the executive branch that discretion to prioritize, who knows where you go?Kohn: I'm sure I go with the program that would scare every single listener here. That discretion scares almost surely scare the Supreme Court.

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