A Fix for the Debt Ceiling

Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) offer a fix in the Washington Post for the debt ceiling mess:

“This legislation would put the power to prevent default in the hands of the president, with Congress acting as a check. In other words — just as McConnell proposed, the bipartisan Congress passed and the Obama administration implemented in 2011 — Congress could only stop the president from raising the debt ceiling if a veto-proof two-thirds majority of lawmakers agreed it was the right thing to do.”