@rbreich I am not an attorney nor do I pretend to be one online, but it seems to me, as discussed during prior administrations facing an opposing majority party Congress, the US Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 4 provides the Executive branch cover to pay debts beyond any statutory ceiling in order to prevent economic instability caused by politics. In other words, the Public Debt clause, as it has become known, mandates that all the government's financial obligations be met and that job falls on the Executive branch as noted in the US Constitution, not Congress. In a nutshell comparing it to personal and business financials, the US debt ceiling is a statutory goal for budgeting purposes but the US Public Debt must be paid. Biden must do what the Constitution requires.