On the heels of a difficult meeting on the debt ceiling, President Biden appears open to circumventing Congress to prevent Republicans from crashing the economy. (via MaddowBlog)
As last week got underway, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivered some bad news to Congress: The deadline to address the debt ceiling could come as early as June 1. Almost immediately thereafter, President Joe Biden scheduled a meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders for May 9. They quickly agreed to participate., attendees did not exceed those expectations.
As a dangerous deadline approaches, the parties are so far apart that they didn’t even agree on whether the White House meeting constituted the start of negotiations. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries used the opportunity to implore House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take default off the table and begin talks over the budget. He refused the New York Democrats’ request.
McCarthy, generally known around Washington, D.C., as a charming back-slapper, was apparently not in a persuasive mood: The president told reporters that while three of the four congressional leaders were “very measured and low key,” the House speaker was “occasionally ... a little over the top.”added, “McCarthy told members the meeting was a waste of time and he hoped ... Biden would not waste his time again.
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