Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the realignment. Ask me anything Q&A discussion episode

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And just a quick note, I am on the road right now. So I'm at the mercy of my Yeti Pro, which isn't

the greatest thing ever. So apologies for that. Saga, you've been following this story much

more deeply than I've been. Dead ceiling. A couple of different tastes we could start with.

Number one, what do you think about the idea of a dead ceiling in the first place?

At like a narrative level. I'm honestly I'm so sick of this discussion. I'm sick of the

dead ceiling. I'm sick of the particular. Crystal and I have to cover this shit every day in and out.

I'm sick of the 14th Amendment. I'm sick of the coin. Okay, dead ceiling. I honestly at this

point, I'm agnostic. I am not convinced that the dead ceiling itself is unconstitutional based upon

the reading of the 14th Amendment. The only argument that does actually make sense is that

it doesn't make any sense for Congress to appropriate dollars to different agencies.

And then put the Treasury Department in a position where if they don't raise the dead ceiling,

they can't fulfill the spending obligations of Congress. That is the one where they do kind of have

at least in my head. Could you that's actually a really good articulation? Can you go one level deeper

and explain what you're getting at? So I think the point is Congress says we're going to pass this

spending bill. They spend a budget or they pass a budget. They're like here is the budget of the

United States of America, okay, in an ideal world, but continuing resolution, whatever.

All right, so what is it article? I forget the article of the Constitution and says Congress

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