[PapaBear3625]

Congress will continue the insane amounts of government spending for their locales, so the default and repudiation are inevitable.

What the 14th Amendment appears to say, is that the public debt of the US must be paid, as a priority senior to all other obligations.

Put another way, the revenue of the US will be applied to the debt. Any money left over will go to legally-mandated appropriations like Social Security. Any money left over from that will be available to fund things like Defense, Education, etc.

[familyop]

Thank you for making that more understandable. I only wish Congress would do that instead of participating in the political corruption and squandering the future away.