Yellen Warns ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Could Come Next Month

By Jack Phillips  May 7, 2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she will not rule out the possibility of declaring the debt ceiling unconstitutional if Congress cannot resolve its standoff over the debt ceiling, but said there are “no good options” on the table. “There is no way to protect our financial system in our economy other than Congress doing its job and raising the debt ceiling and enabling us to pay our bills. And we should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the president can go on issuing debt,” Yellen told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. She was responding to a question about whether the Treasury could use the 14th Amendment to declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional. It reads, in part, that the “validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” But the U.S. Constitution also gives Congress the power of the purse. If Yellen invoked the amendment, it would trigger a “constitutional crisis,” she told ABC News..............To Read More...

My Take - So, is this a threat? Sounds like a threat! It certainly sounds like she's telling the world the Biden administration is going to take the power of the purse away from Congress if they don't give him what he wants, in total violation of the Constitution and the rule of law, which will clearly trigger a Constitutional crisis.  

Note, the only way there will be a Constitutional crisis over the budget is if the Biden administration make a attempt to ignore the Constitution and impose a dictatorship.  Which is the goal of the Democrat party, so she's warning the Congress you better get in line or else.  Well, I don't think that's going to work, and I'm inclined to think this is going to really tick off the conservative members of Congress.