Ahead of key Tuesday meeting, Washington not making much progress toward avoiding a U.S. default
US President Joe Biden meets Friday with his “Investing in America Cabinet” in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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President Joe Biden on Friday reiterated his criticism of the Republican position in Washington’s debt-ceiling standoff, while GOP lawmakers have been countering that Biden and his fellow Democrats previously took similar stances.
Speaking to reporters before a meeting at the White House, Biden talked up the latest jobs report, but then said Republicans in Congress are “threatening to undo all this progress by letting us quote ‘default on the debt’ unless we agree to their demands.”
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