Irresponsible
- Trump believes US should default if White House doesn't agree to spending cuts in the CNN townhall
- Matt Gaetz says the quit part aloud, it's hostage taking
- Republican chairperson Ronna McDaniel says defaulting on the debt would be a boon for Republicans
- Hard-line Republicans furious at possible compromise
- Republicans raised the debt limit three times during Trump's presidency
- They also massively raised the public deficit and debt during the Trump presidency
- Democrats never made an issue out of the debt limit when they weren't in the White House
- Ignore the limit by declaring it unconstitutional on the basis of The 14th Amendment
- Minting platinum coins and issuing them to the Fed
- Issuing perpetual bonds