CNN Erin Burnett OutFront October 7, 2021 23:09:00
President conflicting sets of instructions. congress would have instructed me to make the payments to cover the expenditures they authorized, to collect the taxes that they have legislated. and then on top of that, set a requirement that can't let the debt run above a given level. and those three things all valid laws can come into conflict. it's an impossible -- it's an impossible situation. congress needs to debate these issues when they're deciding on spending and taxation, not to every several years put a hard stop and say, well, now we're not going to let the treasury secretary pay the na...