If in fact the debt ceiling isn't raised, and the President fails to use the 14th Amendment, does he have the authority to then selectively choose which items in the budget get funded?
It seems to me that he has this authority. Even the Tea Party crazies alluded to this when they said he'd have to cut SS, Medicare or Medicaid. But if his administration must decide what to fund, then couldn't he then cut Oil subsidies, cut funding to pet projects in Red States, cut financial support to Red states? It seems clear these Red districts don't want Government help...so let them do without it. Shift all that savings to bring us under the debt ceiling, or even shift the monies to other states and districts.
Thoughts from our learned Dkos community?