Congress passed laws authorizing the spending. If they don't want that spending, they can pass new laws repealing it. Also the same Constitution that grants Co

Congress passed laws authorizing the spending. If they don't want that spending, they can pass new laws repealing it. Also the same Constitution that grants Congress budgetary authority also provides that: > 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. The debt ceiling is unconstitutional as it would cause the Government to default on lawfully authorized debts, in contradiction to the 14th amendment.