Democrats to urge Biden to use 14th amendment powers to avert ‘global economic catastrophe’

Senators including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders argue in letter that Republicans are not negotiating in good faith'

As concerns about the debt ceiling heat up, a group of Democratic senators is planning to send Joe Biden a letter requesting he use his authority under the 14th amendment of the constitution to continue paying the US government's bills, even if the debt ceiling is not raised.

Democratic senators including Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders, an independent, argued that Republicans are not negotiating in good faith". They called into question the GOP's attempt to apply work requirements to programs like Medicaid and SNAP, which provide healthcare and food vouchers for low income family.