OPINION: Will Biden Use 14th Amendment To Increase The Debt Ceiling?

It sounds as if the Repub­li­cans in the House and Sen­ate are stand­ing strong and are insist­ing on spend­ing cuts for an increase in the debt ceil­ing. Let’s hope they stick to it. Unfor­tu­nate­ly all we have is hope.

The democ­rats are using “fear” to pres­sure the repub­li­cans into cav­ing on their stance using the media to work their manip­u­la­tion. Their lat­est ploy is to use the 14th Amend­ment of the US Con­sti­tu­tion to allow Biden to issue an exec­u­tive order bypass­ing Congress.

From Reuters: If Con­gress fails to act, some legal experts say Biden has anoth­er option to avert a cri­sis: Invoke the 14th Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion to ensure the Unit­ed States can con­tin­ue to pay its bills. Sec­tion Four of the amend­ment, adopt­ed after the 1861–1865 Civ­il War, states that the “valid­i­ty of the pub­lic debt of the Unit­ed States … shall not be ques­tioned.” But the clause has been large­ly unad­dressed by the courts.

The Four­teenth Amend­ment is the amend­ment for “Rights Guar­an­teed: Priv­i­leges and Immu­ni­ties of Cit­i­zen­ship, Due Process, and Equal Pro­tec­tion.” Now, if you look at the full word­ing of the Sec­tion 4 of the amend­ment, it is unclear how this would be used to increase the debt limit.

From Con­sti­tu­tion: Four­teenth Amend­ment, Sec­tion 4: The valid­i­ty of the pub­lic debt of the Unit­ed States, autho­rized by law, includ­ing debts incurred for pay­ment of pen­sions and boun­ties for ser­vices in sup­press­ing insur­rec­tion or rebel­lion, shall not be questioned.

Why was an impor­tant part of the sec­tion left out talk­ing about insur­rec­tion or rebel­lion? Could the bor­der play a role with the debt ceil­ing? The omit­ted part could give us the clue on what the admin­is­tra­tion is doing. It answers why the bor­der is being left unat­tend­ed and being left open begin­ning Thurs­day after the expi­ra­tion of Title 42.

Those of us in the know have been scream­ing about the “real” insur­rec­tion at the bor­der, not Jan­u­ary 6. Is the Biden admin­is­tra­tion allow­ing the bor­der to erupt on May 11? Just to enable the sign­ing of an exec­u­tive order for the debt ceil­ing, like he did for the stu­dent loan debt forgiveness.

Biden has already said that he needs to fin­ish his job, which is to fin­ish off Amer­i­ca as we have known it. He wants to spend and invest — into the pock­ets of politicians.

More than 65% of Amer­i­cans don’t pay atten­tion to the news accord­ing to the Gallop/Knight Foun­da­tion polling ‘Amer­i­cans’ Atten­tion to Nation­al News Low­est in Four Years’. Peo­ple are pay­ing atten­tion to the news, but they know. They know they have had to adjust bud­gets. They see their bank state­ments going down and cred­it card state­ments going up. Most Amer­i­cans go to the polls and vote accord­ing to their pock­et­books in the elec­tion. What will they do in 2024? Will they want truth and sta­bil­i­ty or more of the same lies and chaos?

So the ques­tion would be, shouldn’t repub­li­cans stick to their poli­cies and hold the democ­rats account­able no mat­ter the cost? If the spend­ing isn’t cut back, don’t allow a debt ceil­ing increase. Push back on the exec­u­tive order that Biden will enact. Push back on the democ­rats. Let the Amer­i­can peo­ple see what would hap­pen. I hate to say it but the eco­nom­ic strain hasn’t hit enough Amer­i­cans in their pock­ets. Should repub­li­cans push back risk­ing that more Amer­i­cans will feel the finan­cial pain?

Despite the fear the democ­rats push, the gov­ern­ment still brings in $500 bil­lion each month, enough to pay for our seniors and mil­i­tary. Social Secu­ri­ty and Medicare would get paid for our seniors. Our mil­i­tary and defense would get paid along with the inter­est on the debt. All oth­ers would see enor­mous cuts or elim­i­na­tion, like the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and all oth­er depart­ments– what good are they anyway?

Either, we are going to crash now or lat­er. We are in finan­cial ruin. Our country’s lead­ers, except a select few, are more con­cerned about equi­ty rather than pro­tect­ing its cit­i­zens. I say it is about time to let us crash and we can pick up the pieces. Yes it will be hard, very hard in fact, but the next gen­er­a­tion may not have the where­with­al to get it done.

Reuters Arti­cle: https://www.reuters.com/…/biden-says-not-yet-ready…/

Gal­lop Poll sur­vey from 2021: https://knightfoundation.org/…/americans-attention-to…/