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Except, it's a Democrat in the White House who is threatening not to spend the money he has on servicing the debt.
Again, the Treasury has plenty of money to service its debt regardless of this debt ceiling thing. If it defaults, that's purely because the Democratic president chose to blow up the economy, as you put it.
The Treasury says it has the money to service the debt. This is a power play of the president trying to get more borrowing authority, which is exactly what a president is supposed to do, but we need to be clear about how it's working.
