The Fight Over the Debt Ceiling and the 14th Amendment
The Biden Administration on their never-ending quest to bankrupt the United States with reckless spending, bottomless budgets, uncontrolled illegal immigration, and unlimited unfunded liabilities, is trying to revoke the Constitution on their own.
Specifically, the Biden administration is trying to use Section 4 of the 14th amendment, to justify eliminating the debt ceiling all together.
Section 4 of the 14th amendment reads as follow:
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. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”
This would be completely unconstitutional as is the responsibility of the United States Congress to pay the bills via appropriations legislation, and only the Congress has the power to enforce Section 4, as specified on Section 5 of the 14th amendment.
Section 5.
“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
Any attempt by the White House would be a clear usurpation of the Separation of Powers. The White House does not have the authority to unilaterally amend the United States Constitution or appropriate funds to serve its purpose.
As the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, stated in a recent interview, “the White House interfering in matters of debt would be a disastrous situation.”
As a mentioned before, the debt ceiling was established to control government spending, not as an open-ended credit card for wasteful spending.
The deadline to raise the debt ceiling, again, is fast approaching and lawmakers need to produce something by December 3rd.
Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell told President Biden not to count on Republicans to help in another debt ceiling bailout, but Democrats know how McConnell operates and they can smell his bluff a mile away.
It is funny to see the Democrats invoking the Constitution when it serves their nefarious purposes. Otherwise, our Constitutional rights mean nothing to these people and the Constitution is an antiquated document.