It’s not just Dems touting a 14th Amendment debt ceiling solution

With a dangerous deadline drawing closer, the phrase “desperate times call for desperate measures” comes to mind. Enter Josh Hawley. (via MaddowBlog)

,” but it’s rooted in a relatively straightforward reading of the constitutional text, which states that “the validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned.”

But with much of the GOP still prepared to impose an economic disaster on American families, and with a dangerous deadline drawing closer, the phrase “desperate times call for desperate measures” comes to mind.

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