House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that President Joe Biden would be responsible for "Any default" on the nation's $31.3 trillion debt after he "Ignored this debt crisis for more than 100 days."
"There are 9 days left for Democrats to meet the deadline, but since President Biden ignored this debt crisis for more than 100 days-make no mistake-any default would be the Biden Default," McCarthy tweeted.
Because he wasted months ignoring the crisis until it became a full-blown emergency, President Biden now has just 9 days to get serious and strike a responsible agreement to raise the debt limit immediately.
Despite a February 1 meeting between McCarthy and Biden at the White House and the speaker's repeated efforts to begin negotiations, the Biden Administration, for months, asserted that the debt ceiling should be raised "Without conditions."
McCarthy saw the bill as a tool to leverage Biden and Democrats into negotiations, as Breitbart News noted, and it remains the only legislation on Capitol Hill that would raise the debt ceiling.
On May 1, Biden finally requested a second meeting with McCarthy to discuss the debt ceiling, and a meeting materialized on May 9.
Talks resumed on Sunday, which preceded Mondays's third meeting between McCarthy and Biden at the White House.
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