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>But, now the answer is YES, when one party has decided to exploit this legal quirk separating the spending from the issuance of debt to execute a DOS attack on the other party currently in power.

But the party in power has 50 + tie-breaking VP vote? What gives?

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It takes 60 votes to break a filibuster (which the GOP has promised to do on a debt ceiling vote).

It only takes 51 votes to change the filibuster rules, but at least 2 Democratic Senators oppose that, so we're kind of stuck.

See: Filibuster [1]

60 votes are required to break the filibuster in the Senate, and whatever their private ideas (e.g., I've seen reports from credible sources that no less than 44 R Senators personally support raising the debt ceiling), there are apparently zero R votes to go against their leader and end the filibuster.

Interesting times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster

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