As we move slowly toward the stillslim possibility of default, we find ourselves in a peculiar predicament. Strickland, Note, The Public Debt Clause Debate: Who Controls this Lost Section of the.The president says he is willing to discuss possible deficit savings, but without the threat of the federal government being unable to pay its bills. Please see Attachment F (Admissions Policy for Deconcentration). B.2. What's the point of having a Congress if the President can just use the 14th Amendment to bypass them and raise the debt ceiling? Republican are demanding spending cuts the Democrats oppose as their price for raising the legal debt limit. 1. Apparently, the author of the question fails to understand what the so-called "debt ceiling" is. He is the author of "The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform Why We Need. It and What It Will Take. What are the consequences if President Biden invokes 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling.