The American Prospect
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Congress’s failure to raise the debt limit to pay its bills undercuts its own constitutional power to make binding commitments for the U.S. President must borrow enough to pay for what has been appropriated, says Julian Zelizer.
Zelizer: Debt limit amounts to giving one house of Congress ex post veto power over federal spending already authorized by law.
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