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As negotiations over the debt ceiling continue, with the deadline to increase the ceiling coming up in just over a week on June 1st, President Biden has weighed the possibility of using the 14th amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling without Congressional input.
Legal scholars have said that the move would be unlikely to pass legal muster, but he has received encouragement from Democrats in the House and Senate such as Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.).
Fetterman received significant backlash from Republicans and on social media after he said that allowing the President to unilaterally wipe out debt is the ‘whole reason why’ the 14th Amendment exists, ignoring that it includes other components such as an Equal Protection clause and giving freed slave citizenship…
