Today, President Biden is heading to Baltimore to highlight a 150-year-old rail tunnel that is being replaced with help from the bipartisan infrastructure law that he signed in 2021. Follow our live updates:
On our radar: Seven ways the White House can dodge the debt limit, and why experts are skepticalPresident Biden and House Republicans are locked in a showdown over the nation’s debt ceiling, with the administration ruling out negotiations over conservative demands to cut government spending in exchange for increasing the federal borrowing limit.
But some economists, lawyers and academics say the administration has options that could let the White House dodge the debt limit entirely — without needing to worry about the GOP at all, reports The Post’sThese experts want to persuade the Biden administration to try to end the standoff unilaterally, circumventing Congress, and have proposed at least seven ideas for doing so.
Their ideas have been fiercely challenged by more mainstream experts, who have identified myriad financial, political and legal risks in all the suggested solutions. And Biden and his advisers have been adamant, at least so far, that the only viable outcome is for House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling without concessions. on Wednesday.)
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