Wasn’t it the Democrats and Obama who threatened to shut down the government if the debt ceiling wasn’t raised?
Also in the Obama years, they said Obama could ignore the debt ceiling based in the 14th amendment. That amendment has language indicating that the government will pay all debts, or something along those lines. We never got to test out that theory, but at one time they said the 14th amendment would override any debt ceiling legislation.
Nancy Pelosi thinks Presidents spend money... my eighth grade Government teacher thinks Congress has the purse strings. I wonder who is right?