The White House confirmed Friday that the debt ceiling talks between POTUS's team and House Republicans have paused but remained adamant that the administration is striving to reach a bipartisan solution to avoid a national default.
Rep. Garret Graves , one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's hand-picked negotiators, and other House Republicans quickly walked out of a closed-door meeting on the topic early on Friday.Graves called the talks"not productive" and told reporters that"until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we’re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves.
Biden is currently attending the G-7 leaders summit in Japan and is slated to return to Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Both he and McCarthy appointed a negotiating team to continue debt talks until his return following their meeting at the White House on Tuesday.A White House source told the Washington Examiner that, despite the tone of Graves's remarks, the president's team believes it is being reasonable in pursuing both Biden's priorities and a bipartisan solution.
There currently aren't any staff or principal level calls or meetings following Republicans' hasty exit on Friday, the source said, though White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed early Friday morning that Biden is slated to receive another update Saturday morning in Japan.
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