Workers are seeking a court order to prevent layoffs, furloughs or benefit reductions for federal workers if Congress refuses to raise the limit on how much the U.S. can borrow to pay its bills. Government workers sue to block shutdown amid debt crisis:
-- US government employees asked a federal judge to order Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to continue borrowing to keep the government open if political talks to raise the national debt ceiling fail.
Biden and congressional Republicans are locked in a staredown over raising the $31.4 trillion borrowing limit, with GOP leaders demanding promises of future spending cuts before they approve a higher ceiling. Biden has insisted on a “clean” increase, with budget talks kept separate.
“While not challenging here in principle the controversial proposition that Congress can limit the indebtedness of the United States, plaintiff asserts that Congress may not do so without at least setting the order and priority of payments once that limit is reached, instead of leaving it to the president to do so,” NAGE’s lawyers said in a complaint in Boston federal court.
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