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[No Elephants]

This is borrowing (or printing money) to pay obligations of the U.S. incurred solely pursuant to laws passed by Congress.

Any law passed by Congress that purports to say that those obligations should not or cannot be paid as and when they come due, including a debt ceiling bill, violates the 14th amendment. Hance, Congress has no authority to pass such a law. That is the holding of Perry v. U.S.

And a law passed without authority is null and void, leaving the President his Constitutional obligation to defend and protect clause 5 of the 14th amendment, as interpreted by the SCOTUS in Perry v. U.S.