Democrats argue that unless changes are made, taking the country to the brink of default will remain a routine and dangerous part of negotiations. Some lawmakers are pressuring Biden to act unilaterally to ignore Congress and raise the debt ceiling as needed, while others are looking to craft legislation that would limit the ability of Congress to block a debt-ceiling increase.
Using the debt ceiling to extract concessions “has been institutionalized ,” said Sen. Peter Welch (D., Vt.), who has called for legislation eliminating the debt limit altogether.
Congress created the debt ceiling in 1917 to remove itself from day-to-day financial management, giving the Treasury Department authority to borrow up to a set amount rather than passing legislation or each debt issuance. Because the U.S. consistently runs large annual deficits, the debt ceiling must regularly be raised before the Treasury can issue new debt.
Throughout the talks, some House and Senate liberals pushed Biden to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally by relying on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says that “the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law…shall not be questioned .”
Wall Street Journal June 3, 2023
In other words, Congress can’t work together, can’t manage the Country’s fiscal needs, doesn’t care about federal debt and thinks the party in power can do whatever it likes and ignore Congress. No responsible oversight is necessary.
The largest line item in the federal budget is pandering for votes. Move along, nothing to see here.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
The debt ceiling has been lifted for 2 years to give the President room to roam as far as spending goes. As for the future, the next President and congress will have to get down to serious business. There is no room for indiscriminate spending. Look at a pie chart of where the fed spending is going and there is no way spending should be increased because the big items are increasing rapidly. Social security, the health programs, defense and current economic security programs are growing. It is going to take tax increases to keep the deficits from going up every year and drowning us in debt.
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First, I really wish reporters would do a little research and report accurately.
The 14th Amendment, Section 4, was referring to paying the debt for the Civil War but not any debt incurred by the rebelling states. Northern soldiers and suppliers would get paid, the South, nothing from the federal government or their states. Here is the complete 14th 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. 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.”
As President was told by the SCOTUS last week with his student loan forgiveness, only Congress can authorize the spending of billions of dollars. US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7, better known as the Appropriation Clause:
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
Congress better figure it out or the government will waste more money in court. We can’t afford to give a blank check to the president or congress. Look at student loans and home mortgages and the long term crisis that created and rising costs.
It is just sad that I have to keep a copy of the US Constitution at my desk. People and the courts just make stuff up that is not in the US Constitution.
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The Congress can’t spell Debit Ceiling. Spend, and then spend some more when a special interest group raises their voice (votes)!
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