{"id":48230,"date":"2023-01-29T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/mccarthy-says-hell-meet-biden-on-wednesday-to-talk-debt-ceiling\/"},"modified":"2023-01-29T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:24:18","slug":"mccarthy-says-hell-meet-biden-on-wednesday-to-talk-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/mccarthy-says-hell-meet-biden-on-wednesday-to-talk-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy says he\u2019ll meet Biden on Wednesday to talk debt ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he will meet with President Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to meet this Wednesday,\u201d McCarthy told Margaret Brennan on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation. \u201cI know the president said he didn\u2019t want to have any discussions, but I think it\u2019s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Biden and White House officials have said they\u2019d be willing to work in a bipartisan fashion to avoid the country defaulting on its debts but said they would not make concessions on spending cuts in order to do so. The U.S. reached its borrowing limit earlier this month and has until June to either raise or suspend the debt ceiling before defaulting. <\/p>\n<p>Some GOP House members have not ruled out making cuts to Social Security and Medicare, but McCarthy reiterated Sunday that those are \u201coff the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/3835056-turner-laments-systemic-problem-in-biden-pence-handling-of-classified-docs\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tTurner laments \u2018systemic problem\u2019 in Biden, Pence handling of classified docs\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/3835023-durbin-does-not-rule-out-a-federal-investigation-into-the-memphis-police-department\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tDurbin does not rule out a federal investigation into the Memphis police department\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy added that there was some \u201cwasteful spending\u201d when it came to the budget but that he does not want to put  the country\u2019s finances in \u201cjeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I want to sit down together, work out an agreement that we can move forward to put us on a path of balance, at the same time not put any of our debt in jeopardy at the same time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Hill reached out to the White House for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMid2h0dHBzOi8vdGhlaGlsbC5jb20vaG9tZW5ld3Mvc3VuZGF5LXRhbGstc2hvd3MvMzgzNTA5NS1tY2NhcnRoeS1zYXlzLWhlbGwtbWVldC1iaWRlbi1vbi13ZWRuZXNkYXktdG8tdGFsay1kZWJ0LWNlaWxpbmcv0gF7aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9zdW5kYXktdGFsay1zaG93cy8zODM1MDk1LW1jY2FydGh5LXNheXMtaGVsbC1tZWV0LWJpZGVuLW9uLXdlZG5lc2RheS10by10YWxrLWRlYnQtY2VpbGluZy9hbXAv?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he will meet with President Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt ceiling. \u201cWe\u2019re going to meet this Wednesday,\u201d McCarthy told Margaret Brennan on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation. \u201cI know the president said he didn\u2019t want to have any discussions, but I think it\u2019s very important that our whole &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48231,"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\/48230"}],"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=48230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}