Rep. Cohen: Biden will likely have to use 14th Amendment to raise debt ceiling



Some Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment as the debt ceiling deadline looms. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations.

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22 comments

  1. Yellen is a tired, dinosaur from the era of Reagan and conservatives bargaining . Fire Yellen! Replace her immediately! #14thAmendmentNow

  2. I will support President Biden for simply having to put up with these childish fascist clowns. If he can come to a deal, fine. But don’t let the poor folks take the hit. Obama had to go through this the year before his second election. The timing is right on schedule, that train is never late. But the working poor can’t afford another huge economic issue . We pay our bills, the government needs to pay on the accumulated debt. Get it done!

  3. GHTJOE HAS TO DO THE RPRESIDENT BIDEN HAS TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR AMERICA BY PROTECTIONG ALL OF THE GREAT AMERICANS THAT ARE DEPENDING ON EVERYTHING IN THIS BUDGET, SEE THIS BUDGET IS A BILL THAT HAS TO PAID MOSTLY CAUSE TRUMP IN CREAES IT SOME 25% WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE, SO JOE WILL SIGN TO INVOKE THE 14TH AMENTMENT TO PROTECT THE AMERICANS PEOPLE'S INTERESTS.

  4. Impossible to use 14th Amendment when numbers, names, nationalities cant be accounted for on southern border.
    How can national debt be rationalized on nonexistent data?

  5. 14th ammendment section 5..it must be passed by congress The president has no input

  6. Suggested:
    Dept.of Treasury designed by the (Framers)-
    Coded as no entity or power(Foreign/Domestic)shall breech the Dept.of Treasury sovereignty of the system-public asset.
    14th amendment would be moot by todays standards and further down the road would be a disaster public&private…

    "Whats the Frequency Kenneth"

  7. This must be Kevin Malarkey's first budgeting process. And it shows too.

  8. End times are here! REPENT! Time for the deadly wound!

  9. Biden is a traitor trump puts America 1st not his family Biden steals money trump has his money we can trust him

  10. Biden should ask trump s advice he is too old and not capable to understand anymore and is ruining our country.

  11. Biden needs to use the tools he was given and REMOVE these PROVEN TRAITORS WHO TAKE AMERICAS ECONOMY HOSTAGE , OR HE IS NO BETTER THAN GOP

  12. That would the stupid thing to do , so most likley thats what he will do. Or whoever is his puppet master will instruct him to do it. NBC did you hear about the recent survey asking Americans if corp media was responsible for the division in the country, 75% agreed, with nbc and obviously msnbc leading the way. Pretty sickening , isnt it?

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  14. Janet Yellen is just plain wrong about. Additionally, the executive branch can do whatever it wants unless stopped by a court of law / court ordered / cease order based on a lawsuit. Biden would be fully within his rights as the executive to order JY to mint the big coin that will solve the mess.

  15. And he saved 1.7 trillion right King Joe??? No you spent more. Ask your buddy BO his math is better.

  16. American Taliban aka GOP uses debt ceiling as their terror weapon. They raised debt ceiling multiple times for Trump without cutting budget.
    GOP = Terror Group

  17. Anti-government Kevin McChicken & CONs afraid give VP Harris credit, so let Harris in on Hostage negotiation. She better than US traitor, liar & predator Rump anytime

  18. America will rightly blame any economic crash or recession on the radical right HOSTAGE TAKERS. The debt ceiling is not the time to make unreasonable demands.

    Let the R's run their ideas past the public for deep SS & MEDICARE cuts so they can give their 1% cronies tax cuts. See how THAT goes lol!

    President Biden shouldn't give in to blackmail, EVER. Terrorists use these tactics again ONLY when they worked before.

  19. We don’t give In to terrorists. Take note GOP. If the GOP wants to make up voting rules to make it harder for people to vote we can do the right thing and honor debts that we have honored even during the golden age of ww2 or whatever conservatives romanticize.

  20. Yeah, 14th Amendment….or you could just say God's law provides equal protection under His law and grants people the right to not be deprived of their God given rights and human decency… I would take a wild guess and say our Constitution and all the Amendments all derive their origin from God's law… I like to say God's law so He gets the credit.. that way everyone including the lgbtqrstuv community and everyone else has to give God the credit for their legal protections.. He is the reason we even have this beautiful country in the first place we really need to give Him all the credit.