43 Democrats Want to Abolish the Debt Ceiling

The U.S. debt ceiling is a relic from another time that serves no useful purpose and should be abolished, according to 43 House Democrats, an opinion shared by some leading economists.
The effort to abolish the ceiling is led by Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), who introduced H.R. 415, the End the Threat of Default Act, which would repeal the debt ceiling to prevent it from being used to wield political leverage.
“Weaponizing the debt ceiling and using it as a pawn in partisan budget negotiations is dangerous and repeatedly brings our nation to the brink of default, which would be disastrous to the U.S. economy,” Foster said in a January statement introducing the legislation….}