Biden hosts a big debt ceiling meeting while insisting there's nothing to talk about
by W. James Antle III, Politics Editor |
May 09, 2023 07:00 AM
President Joe Biden is set to meet Tuesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other congressional leaders about the debt ceiling standoff, but if you believe the White House, there is nothing to talk about.
“Look, there shouldn't be negotiations on the debt limit,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “This is something that they should get to regular order and get to work on. We should not have House Republicans manufacturing a crisis on something that has been done 78 times since 1960.”
Jean-Pierre pitched the meeting as more of a Biden lecture. “So we're telling them — or saying to them: Do your job,” she said. “Pay for something that you've already spent on. That's it.” The message was similar last week.
“It is the president's job to also be very clear with Congress, with Republicans in Congress: You got to do your job,” Jean-Pierre said. “It is simple.”
“The question is to Speaker McCarthy, as I've said many times before here, is to — to the MAGA Republicans: What is going on here?” she added. “Why can you not get this done? It is simple. It is simple.”
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