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"The fact of the matter is that this bill was totally unnecessary. The President has the authority and the ability to eliminate the debt ceiling today by invoking the 14th Amendment."
*May* be unnecessary, depending on the interpretation by a court stacked with fascists, who are willing to bend legal logic into a pretzel, and ignore legal precedent to impose their agenda. Biden did the thing that guaranteed a less-bad outcome.
@ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es @dougiec3@libretooth.gr The other simple fact is that budgets between now and 2025 will have GOP input. I don't love that, but that's reality. Biden didn't give up anything that wasn't a fait accompli.
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Agreed. Aside from his power to invoke the amendment there was also the very real problem that the courts could delay its implementation just long enough to get in on causing a default.