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The parties are not polarized on this issue! They both believe the debt limit must be raised by Congress.
by snowwrestler 4y ago
The parties are not polarized on this issue! They both believe the debt limit must be raised by Congress.
- joshuamorton 4y agoThis simply isn't correct. Both parties may think that it is the path of least resistance to a particular political debate is to have congress raise the debt ceiling, but characterizing either party as having a solidified interpretation of the legal necessity of those actions is silly, it's not really a thing either party has taken a solid position on. As we saw in the Trump presidency, lots of things that are or were done as "norms" aren't necessary, and violating those norms was completely legal and, in some ways, extremely powerful and expedient for the Trump white house. (the most relevant of these being that Trump bypassed the appointments clause for many positions by having acting heads run certain institutions for months or years without senate confirmation)