Even as President Obama has avoided opining or interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment, Geithner, who presumably is speaking as a representative of the administration, has made it very clear that he believes that Fourteenth Amendment gives a president the legal right to extend the debt ceiling. 尽管奥巴马总统一直在回避对第十四条修正案做出评论或解释,然而盖特纳作为公认的政府发言人直言不讳地指出,第十四条修正案赋予了总统提升债务上限的法律权利。