As negotiations with congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling drag on, at least five U.S. senators are circulating a letter that urges President Joe Biden to prepare to invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics.
Though the public thinks he’s too old to serve a second term, Joe Biden keeps getting older. What should the Democrats do?
The current debt ceiling nonsense is a case of one faction of Congress being pitted against Congress itself. It's time to end this absurdity.
President Biden should do “whatever it takes” to avoid an economic catastrophe. House GOP-led efforts are to blame for the impending debt crisis. In 2011, the GOP’s demands for massive spending cuts sabotaged the Great Recession recovery.
Potentially the most consequential shift has come from the Biden administration.
A not-so-civil war continues
Republicans are threatening to tank the global economy if President Biden doesn’t agree to slash spending on social welfare programs. It’s a trap.
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