The debt ceiling is as enforceable as false weather report laws are enforceable against sharpie gate. POTUS needs to nut up, issue an EO and see who is going to stop him.
But the point is, repeatedly testing legal corner cases and economic disruption on basic things like will our govt reps allow the govt to spend what they told it to spend is shooting ourself in the foot for political theatre.
Nations want a stable financial foundation to transact between other nations. They want a stable reserve currency that doesn’t inject added disruption from political instability. Until recently that was the US dollar that was stable beyond all other currencies.
The debt ceiling fights only started when BHO won the presidency, 15 years of this nonsense is enough.