Nat'l Journal: Republicans Close to Violating the Constitution

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51. The issue was that

the Congress is assigned the task of allowing a debt ceiling (not historically always the case but since... I forget when but it was in my lifetime) where the borrowing authority is limited by Congress such that the president, in implementing the policies Congress has affirmed and he implements, can only spend what's in the budget. When the implementation of policy exceeds the budget approved by Congress, the president/treasury must borrow the rest. When the rest exceeds the borrowing limit assigned by Congress the debt ceiling has been reached. When that happens, the treasury can only issue funds from cash on hand and that's when it gets shaky as to whether we can pay all of the obligations set forth by Congress.

See, they not only limited the president's ability to function with the budget, they ordered up policies that cost more than what they allowed the president to spend on those policies and when it came time for them to allow for those policies to be paid for by borrowing what was needed to complete the process, they threw this hissy fit and shut it all down with the premeditated intent to stifle the president and try to show that he was incompetent because... well pick a tall tale from the TP gang.

THEY. CREATED. THE. WHOLE. F'ING. MESS. in order to discredit the president they objected to and who won election twice in spite of all their cheating.

It's the intent that matters here, not so much about the Constitution that they want to be revisionist in it's interpretation.