https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/10/17/did-the-deal-allow-the-president-to-set-the-debt-limit-from-now-on/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 15:14:29 -0400<![CDATA[That rumor has been flying around, in part due to the natural opacity of last-minute deals struck at the eleventh hour of a &#8220;crisis.&#8221;  The legislative branch controls the debt ceiling, but Democrats have occasionally proposed to either eliminate it altogether or allow the executive to set it &#8212; at least when a Democrat is President.  So what exactly did the Reid-McConnell bill do to the debt ceiling?  Politico has the source of some confusion on this at the bottom of their story:]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:16:10 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2013/10/17/did-the-deal-allow-the-president-to-set-the-debt-limit-from-now-on-n210445