apmom wrote:
Again, I say their wanting to repeal it has nothing to do with immigrant babies. It is other sections they are going after, like the one that President Obama can use if the Republicans don't want to play ball in a fair and reasonable manner.
There is just no there, there.

Nothing in the Constitution's 14th Amendment gives the president the power to do anything about the debt limit.

What it does say is that the debt is paid first before government revenues are spent on anything else. The debt takes precedence over Social Security payments, defense spending, Medicare bills, Department of Agriculture payments, Congressional pay and the millions of other things our federal government spends money on.

The only way the 14th might come into play on the debt limit is if the payments took every cent of revenue the government currently collects and then some. We are no place close to that point.

The president can't use the 14th amendment to borrow more money because Constitutionally, he has no power to borrow money at all. This is a power granted solely to the legislative branch and there is no possible creative reading of the 14th amendment that changes this.


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