White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s group of Republican congressmen “retracted” the process of negotiating with the US government over the national debt limit. Transmits words DEA News.
“The speaker team put a proposal on the table that was a huge step back,” he said.
According to a White House spokesperson, his proposals included a series of highly partisan demands that could not be accepted by both houses of Congress.
Jean-Pierre noted that representatives of the US administration stated that they were ready to meet with members of Congress at any time on the issue of public debt.
On the eve, it was learned that US President Joe Biden was on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima. asked journalists will “shut up” when they barrage him with questions about the impending default in the country.