House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has accepted an invitation to meet with President Joe Biden on May 9 about the debt ceiling
Biden invited all four Congressional leaders to the meeting. Biden’s calls came after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified lawmakers on Monday that the US could default on its debt by June 1. Biden has not met with McCarthy since February. The House passed a package to raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion last week.
Following the bill’s passage in the House, Biden told reporters he would be “happy to meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended.” The White House has maintained that the president would only accept a clean proposal to raise the nation’s borrowing limit. McCarthy responded to Yellen’s comments Monday in a statement that said, “The clock is ticking.
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