事实上，随着债务上限提高期限的临近，布鲁金斯研究所（Brookings Institution）杰出高级研究员阿隆（Henry Aaron）指出美国宪法要求政府“花国会让他花的钱，征国会授权他征的税，借不多于国会授权的钱。
Indeed, as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling neared, Henry Aaron, a distinguished senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, pointed out that the US Constitution requires the president “to spend what Congress has instructed him to spend, to raise only those taxes Congress has authorized him to impose, and to borrow no more than Congress authorizes.”