They already raised the legal debt ceiling to 11. something trillion so that it could accomdate this.But think about this also when the stock market lost 770 points yesterday that works out to a loss of 1.2 trillion I heard,now some of that will come back maybe but how much and for how long is an open question.While the 770 billion may be a bitter pill to swallow doing nothing could could end up being much much much worse.