On Friday afternoon, with negotiations on legislation to raise the debt ceiling reportedly stalled, 66 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) sent a letter to the president urging him to invoke the 14th Amendment, one clause of which mandates the federal government to pay its bills, as an end-run around GOP obstructionism. Meanwhile, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), along with high-profile House members such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), have kept up a drumbeat of social media criticism accusing the GOP of wanting to eviscerate social protections for the poor in order to satiate the tax-cutting demands of the super-wealthy.
But Joe Biden being Joe Biden, however, he’s unlikely to fully call the GOP’s bluff, hoping for a negotiated outcome to the standoff rather than a constitutionally untested reliance on the 14th Amendment. Given the extremism […]
I try to live on Social Security and my monthly income is only $12 above the poverty line, even though I worked hard all my life, sometimes working two jobs per day until I became disabled!
P.S.: I meant $12 dollars per year, not per month, above the yearly poverty line.