These experts want to persuade the Biden administration to try to end the standoff unilaterally, circumventing Congress, and have proposed at least seven ideas for doing so.
Their ideas have been fiercely challenged by more mainstream experts, who have identified myriad financial, political and legal risks in all the suggested solutions.
And Biden and his advisers have been adamant, at least so far, that the only viable outcome is for House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling without concessions. (White House officials have reviewed executive options but are publicly maintaining they are unworkable. Biden will meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday.)
