"Challenges to Biden's Agenda: Debt Ceiling and Climate Crisis"

Senator Ed Markey has urged President Joe Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment to end the standoff over raising the debt limit, which he believes is crucial to defusing Republicans’ efforts to block the president’s policies, including climate legislation. GOP House members have laid out a series of policy demands as part of the talks on raising the limit, including speedier approvals of energy permits and a rescinding of much of Biden’s signature climate law. Markey believes that Biden needs to bypass Congress to prevent Republicans from extracting unreasonable concessions.