Pawlenty: Pay 'outside creditors' before military if US defaults

The Hill
By Alicia M. Cohn

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Michele Bachmann, both Minnesotans and GOP presidential candidates, have shown very different priorities in the debt-ceiling debate.

On Friday, Pawlenty said that if a deal can't be reached "outside creditors" should be paid before the military in order to avoid default and make time to debate "structural change" in the budget.

"You have to to take away the the false choice between a default to outside creditors and raising the debt ceiling or doing it incorrectly or unwisely," Pawlenty said in an interview on “Political Capital With Al Huntâ€