'Our very first responsibility, we both should have to pass a budget.'
McCarthy wrote that he is "prepared to sit down to discuss a variety of means to do so that would achieve trillions of dollars in savings."
Biden responded that Republicans should release a budget proposal before the House breaks for a two-week recess on Thursday. "For [our] conversation to be productive," Biden wrote, "We should both tell the American people what we are for."on both counts," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates wrote in the memo, "because the American people deserve to know what their leaders value."
A conversation between the two men "requires seeing a full budget proposal from House Republicans, including revenue and spending," he continued.
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