Professor Buchanan Influences Debt Ceiling Debate

GW Law Professor Neil H. Buchanan and Cornell Law Professor Michael C. Dorf have been writing about the debt ceiling issue for years. In journal articles and media appearances, the professors explain why a President must—as a matter of constitutional imperative—choose to issue debt in excess of the statutory limit, if the budget otherwise requires him to do so, and why even Republicans in Congress should want the President to issue more debt, if Congress itself is unable to find a way to do its duty and increase the debt ceiling as needed.