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How do you think they are going to pay off the debt if they raise the debt limit other than by printing money?
Edit: the whole point of raising the debt limit is so they can continue to deficit spend.
Democrats need to hold firm and not cave. It will never end if they don’t. >

What they need to do is a boss move by having the 1 trillion dollar coin minted. >

I keep seeing comments like this about a 1 trillion dollar coin. 
I know almost nothing about the debt ceiling. Can someone explain to me what minting a $1T coin would do? >

So... Print money to pay off your national debt? What a great idea, I wonder why nobody has tried that before...
I mean why stop at a trillion? They can make a coin with a face value of anything, just make the face value the same as the debt and boom, no more debt. >

That's what government spending does: it creates money.  Money is literally how all government debt is paid.  The only difference with the $1T coin is the president doesn't need congress to do it. >

You can keep adding edits, it won't make it true. Government deficit spending creates money, not all spending. Most spending is from the revenue pot of taxes, tariffs, fines, etc.
If it worked as you seem to think it does, there would be no need for debt instruments or taxes since you would just have the treasury directly print all the budget money you need. That idea was what I was literally mocking in the original comment.
The debt ceiling is a dumb idea to start with, which is why nobody else has to even debate this, but a $1tr coin is literally just a way of circumventing congress on a loophole to print money to circumvent congress. Printing money has consequences, even if you just use it to pay off debts directly. It also requires the federal reserve, an independent institution, to not spend the $1tr you give them to pay off the debt. There's no way of forcing them to stick it in a box in the treasury forever, it's their money once you've paid. They can do whatever they want with it.