February 8, 2023 4:32pm EST
Biden invokes 'chaos,' sticks to refusal to negotiate on debt during first post-State of the Union speech
Last week, the Republican Study Committee, a group 165 conservative House Republicans, laid out a series of proposed budget cuts.
By Bradford Betz FOXBusiness
President Biden on Wednesday stuck to his refusal to negotiate on the debt ceiling and said the push by some Republican lawmakers to default would lead to "chaos."
The president made these comments while promoting his economic plan at a training center run by the Laborers’ International Union of North America near Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaking to an audience of workers in orange shirts and hard hats, Biden railed against "leading Republicans" who want to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
"Some Republicans are even threatening to have America default on its debt if I don’t agree to the cuts they want," Biden said. "Democrats have never, ever done that, by the way."
During his State of the Union address Tuesday, President criticized Republicans’ reluctance to increase the federal debt limit, the nation’s legal borrowing authority that must be raised later this year or risk default.
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