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No date has been set for the Biden-McCarthy meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m optimistic they will sit down, as this White House always has, and that\u2019s why we were able to accomplish so much in a bipartisan way last Congress. It takes constructive conversation,\u201d Rep. Josh Gottheimer<\/span> (D-N.J.) said on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s things that are reasonable on the table, and there are things that are unreasonable. Gutting Social Security and Medicare is on the unreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n On the Republican side, Rep. Nancy Mace<\/span> (R-S.C.) said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that Biden not negotiating with Republicans is \u201cnot how to unify our country.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very divided right now. We have $31 trillion of debt. The responsible thing to do would be to get to the table with Republicans and negotiate a way,\u201d Mace said.<\/p>\n Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick<\/span> (R-Pa.) said on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d it\u2019s a problem that the Biden administration won\u2019t negotiate with Republicans. It\u2019s \u201cnot leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n House Republicans want a deal that includes spending cuts before raising the debt ceiling, but Biden officials have insisted that Congress pass a clean debt ceiling increase. Democrats have noted that Congress passed three increases on the debt ceiling under former President Donald Trump without demanding spending cuts.<\/p>\n Manchin said the cuts proposed by Republicans are \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTake that off the board right now and look at ways that we have wasteful spending that we can be held accountable and responsible,\u201d the West Virginia Democrat said.<\/p>\n Trump issued a warning to Republican lawmakers<\/a> on Friday, saying that Republicans shouldn\u2019t vote to cut \u201ca single penny\u201d from Medicare or Social Security.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s ironic,\u201d Rep. Brendan Boyle<\/span> (D-Pa.) said on MSNBC, \u201cthat Kevin McCarthy and his fellow Republicans in the House are now suddenly discovering that deficit and debt is this important issue, because they\u2019re the same folks who voted to raise the debt ceiling, and never said a word when Donald Trump was adding more to our national debt than any president in our American history.\u201d<\/p>\n On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the U.S. had reached its debt limit<\/a> and would need to use extraordinary measures to avoid a default. Yellen has projected that Congress has until at least June to pass a debt ceiling increase.<\/p>\n If the federal government exhausts its use of extraordinary measures for the first time, it could impact Americans who depend on government benefits and \u201cwould cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability,\u201d Yellen has said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n No date has been set for the Biden-McCarthy meeting. \u201cI\u2019m optimistic they will sit down, as this White House always has, and that\u2019s why we were able to accomplish so much in a bipartisan way last Congress. It takes constructive conversation,\u201d Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s things that are reasonable …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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