Why did Biden cave? [US Debt Limit]

[Kulindahr]

I just read that Biden made a deal with McCarthy about the debt limit. Articles I read last week had me thinking he was going to stand up and order the Treasury to keep paying the bills, on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment, which didn't require a vote for debts to be paid but affirmed that the vote by Congress to spend something established a debt that cannot be questioned. There have been scholars saying for a long time that the debt limit is unconstitutional because the very idea of a limit that gets in the way of the U.S. paying its debts calls the validity of spending "authorized by law" into question, and thus requiring another vote to authorize spending that Congress already approved is contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.

Why did Biden not take that route and end this nonsense forever?

 

[TX-Beau]

Supreme Court