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President Biden is considering invoking the 14th Amendment to circumvent the debt ceiling.
Frida Ghitis: Biden invoking the amendment would be like calling Kevin McCarthy’s bluff.
She says it would rely on Treasury Dept. to go ahead and just keep borrowing money.
Ghitis says Biden's move would be more like an excuse to ignore the Republicans.
Democrats are increasingly edgy about the direction of the White House’s negotiations on the debt ceiling.
They want to gore public spending on social services but not the military, and raise the debt limit.
Joe Biden's close confidant and avowed nonprogressive Jim Clyburn has called for Biden to do it.
We can expect to see a deal by June 1 when the U.S. officially runs out of money.
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