.POTUS challenged House GOP, specifically SpeakerMcCarthy, to make a counter-offer to his $7 trillion federal budget, a document that will frame the coming debt ceiling fight. 'Lay it down; tell me what you want to do,' Biden said.
"I want to make it clear: I'm ready to meet with the speaker anytime tomorrow if he has his budget," Biden said Thursday in Philadelphia."Lay it down; tell me what you want to do. I'll show you what I want to do."Biden pitched his fiscal 2024 budget as meeting a campaign promise while he is poised to announce a reelection bid, emphasizing, for example, his spending on public safety.
Before the budget's release, Biden had criticized Republicans, particularly Sen. Rick Scott , for considering automatically"sun-setting" of programs, including Social Security and Medicare. But despite doing so, his budget provides scant details regarding the former. Young projected optimism that there can be bipartisan cooperation concerning the budget and the debt ceiling, but in the same response, scrutinized Republicans who she said are using the debt ceiling"as a threat, as leverage."
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