'Donald Trump is right': Elizabeth Warren looks to president to help her kill U.S. debt limit

Elizabeth Warren agreeing with Donald Trump on anything is news. Elizabeth Warren agreeing with Donald Trump that Congress should have less accountability for spending your money is the kind of thing that should make people sit up. She's not hiding the ball either. She's crediting him by name for the idea of scrapping the debt limit entirely, at a moment when the number sitting on top of it is $39.8 trillion and climbing.

Here's what's funny about the alliance: these two agree on almost nothing except the parts of government that are supposed to be annoying. The debt limit is annoying by design. It's the one moment, however imperfect and however often it turns into theater, when lawmakers actually have to look at the number and explain themselves. Get rid of it and you get rid of the last excuse for anyone in Washington to ever say no to anything.

Both parties have spent decades treating the ceiling as a hostage-taking ritual rather than a real check, so we understand the frustration. But the answer to "this tool gets abused for political leverage" isn't "so let's remove the only tool." That's not reform, that's surrender. If Warren wants a serious conversation about spending discipline, we're happy to have it. Quietly agreeing with Trump to make debt limitless isn't that conversation. It's the opposite of one.