President Joe Biden has disputed some of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) characterizations of their hourlong meeting over the debt ceiling and contradicted a couple of statements the White House has made about his positions.
"We agreed to continue our discussions, and we're going to meet again on Friday. In the meantime, our staff are going to meet today and daily between now and then," Biden told reporters Tuesday in the Roosevelt Room."I made clear during our meeting that default is not an option.
Biden went on to indicate that he trusted McCarthy"will try to do what he says" but that he does not “know how much leeway" McCarthy"thinks he has," intimating the speaker was not"measured" at times during the meeting. McCarthy told reporters at the White House after the meeting that he"didn’t see any new movement" regarding their respective stances over a clean debt ceiling bill and concessions concerning spending cuts in exchange for extending the country's borrowing cap. He, too, bemoaned Biden's lack of compromise proposals.
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