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National News See other National News Articles Title: Desperate Dems Float 14th Amendment As Debt Ceiling Override As yet another battle looms between Republicans and Democrats over the debt ceiling, a new piece of potential leverage has been floated - using the 14th Amendment as a last-ditch effort to avoid default. The amendment, aimed primarily at extending the Bill of Rights liberties to former slaves, includes a section which states that "the validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned," with the implication that it would allow President Biden to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling. When asked on Friday during an MSNBC interview whether this option is on the table, Biden didn't say no - just that we've "not gotten there yet." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, however, said that relying on the 14th Amendment would create a "constitutional crisis." "There is no way to protect our financial system in our economy, other than Congress doing its job and raising the debt ceiling and enabling us to pay our bills and we should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the President can go on issuing debt. This would be a constitutional crisis," she told ABC's "This Week." That said, she also didn't rule it out. RNC Research @RNCResearch Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen refuses three times to rule out Biden unilaterally "invoking the 14th Amendment" on the debt limit. Yellen warned that if Congress doesn't act to solve the issue, "we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making, and there is no action that President Biden and the U.S. Treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe." White House aides have reportedly looked into the use of the Amendment in order to avoid default, The Hill reports. Lawmakers, on the other hand, say that default can only be avoided if a deal is reached between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The pair are scheduled to meet on Tuesday for the first time since February in order to negotiate. Poster Comment: The Biden admin is about to blow sky high. Ukraine almost is dead. Hunter needs a pardon to keep the entire Biden family out of jail. Then there is the end of Title 42 and 700,000 more Americanos in 24 hours. And then the collapsing banks. President Kamala will have to appoint a VP. How about Chuck Schumer? He could read dictates directly from the ADL, Netanyahu and the Rothschilds so we don't have to pretend to have a country anymore. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
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That is quite ambiguous. It could be interpreted to mean no one can even ask how much it is. It really shouldn't have been passed.
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