House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is to meet Monday with President Biden at the White House in hopes of forging a breakthrough on a deal to cut spending and raise the debt limit.
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President Biden is threatening to utilize an unprecedented and constitutionally questionable maneuver to circumvent Republicans on the debt limit with less than two weeks until the U.S. is likely to default and be unable to pay its bill.
The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline.
As President Biden meets with lawmakers Tuesday about the debt ceiling, Republicans, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, insist they want real negotiations.