What's the United States going to do? Are they really fooling around with not paying their debt?' he mused.īiden has a planned meeting Tuesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.īiden did not take questions at Friday's meeting and thus couldn't confirm the CNBC report on whether a short-term extension was on the table. 'You know that this is becoming an issue in other countries. He told reporters that he knew a lot of them covered foreign policy. 'Unless you pass our budget we're proposing.'īiden again said: 'We're not a deadbeat nation, we pay our bills.' 'They say we're not going to increase the debt that every president's done for the last six million years here,' Biden said.
He also made a baffling claim about the age of the United States. 'Whether you pay the debt or not, it doesn't have a damn thing to do what your budget is.'īiden blasted the GOP for 'trying to hold the debt hostage' to usher in 'draconian' and 'damaging' cuts. 'The two are totally unrelated,' Biden complained.
'Unfortunately, our - now I won't say Republican because I think they're pretty well divided - but the MAGA Republicans in Congress are threatening to undo all this progress by letting us "default on the debt" unless we agree to their demands,' Biden said. The economy added 253,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's what it is from beginning to end, it's a manufactured crisis driven by MAGA Republicans in the Congress.' 'The last thing this country needs after all we've been through is a manufactured crisis and that's what this is: A manufactured crisis. 'Just today they're reporting 250,000 new jobs,' Biden said.
On Friday, Biden again chided 'MAGA' Republicans for playing chicken with him, telling reporters at his meeting with the Investing in America Cabinet that GOP lawmakers were responsible for creating a 'manufactured crisis'Īt the meeting, Biden highlighted Friday morning's better-than-expected jobs report.
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