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McCarthy emerges from meeting with Biden clearly not comprehending what happened in there [1]

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Date: 2023-02-02  

McCarthy emerges from the White House meeting to talk to reporters.

President Joe Biden and Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy had their first meeting Wednesday to discuss moving forward with policy, the budget for 2024, and the debt ceiling issue. As of two weeks ago, the U.S. had hit the limit of its borrowing capacity, the congressionally imposed limit on the level of debt that the federal government can assume. Creative financing will keep the government going for several months, but the meter is definitely running now.

The President apparently had mixed results in getting McCarthy to comprehend the gravity of the situation, judging by McCarthy’s post-meeting press conference. He bounded out of the meeting with big golden lab puppy energy, clearly buoyed at getting to sit at the grown-ups' table.

“The president and I had a first good meeting—I shared my perspective with him, he shared his,” McCarthy said afterward. “No agreements, no promises, except that we would continue this conversation.” He added a garbled summation: “There’s nothing in there but me walking away that does not believe at the end of the day we can come to an agreement.”

The White House was more circumspect in its statement following the meeting. It was “a frank and straightforward dialogue,” according to the White House, that had one overriding message: “President Biden made clear that, as every other leader in both parties in Congress has affirmed, it is their shared duty not to allow an unprecedented and economically catastrophic default.”

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