understand is if on tuesday morning the treasury does not have enough money to pay its debts torks pay its obligations and pay appropriations that congress has already appropri e appropriated, that puts the president in a tight spot, he can either take on more debt to pay these obligations, which has a constitutional problem, or what he can do is say if the treasury doesn't have enough money, i'm going to pick and choose which debts, which obligations, which appropriations i'm going to pay. the problem is the supreme court has already specifically held the president does not have that constitutional power. the president cannot pick and choose, so the idea that somehow the president doesn't have the authority to raise the debt ceiling by himself and so what he has to do is pick and choose which debts, obligations, and appropriations to spend creates as many constitutional problems as it solves. the question now is we have a situation where you have a congress that has put the