The president says he’s open to talking, but on the budget first.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is open to meeting again with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — but would not give in to the Republican’s demand for negotiations on the debt limit.
“We’re not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling — that is a separate matter,” a White House official said. The official did concede that talks with Republican leaders would likely occur in the future should McCarthy secure the votes to pass his legislation. But, even in that scenario, the debt ceiling would not be discussed. “Obviously,” the official said, “we want to talk about the budget.”
Biden on Wednesday dismissed a question about the GOP bill, telling reporters that “they haven’t figured out the debt limit yet.” Senate Democrats have made clear that they won’t take up the GOP debt limit bill if it passes the House, with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling it a “wasted effort” that would “bring us dangerously closer to defaulting.”
Still, Biden allies said there is recognition that the president will need to jumpstart talks soon on the broader budget — and show that he’s open to working with Republicans, even if he sticks to his demand of a clean debt ceiling. “The president’s been very clear: There’s the debt ceiling and then there is government funding, the two of them cannot come together,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro , the top Democratic appropriator in the House. “I don’t see any reason to believe that he would back off of that.”
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