McCarthy says a meeting with Biden on the shutdown and border would be 'important'

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McCarthy says a meeting with Biden on the shutdown and border would be 'important'
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“The president can really come down to this and make sure the government stays open,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, after bailing on a prior spending deal with the White House.

"I need to be very clear, it’s up to the speaker to twist in the wind. I mean, seriously ... a deal is a deal," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One."The president made a deal with the speaker and a bipartisan deal that was voted by two-thirds of House Republicans back in June."

McCarthy’s latest remarks come as House Republicans have struggled to coalesce behind a strategy to avert a far-reaching government shutdown slated for midnight Saturday that could potentiallyHouse conservatives are demanding that steep spending cuts be tied to any appropriations bills or short-term funding deal that moves through Congress. And, in recent days, McCarthy has attempted to make the shutdown showdown about the GOP’s border security measure, known as H.R. 2.

“The president can really come down to this and make sure the government stays open. All he has to do, take some action on the border to secure it so those border agents don’t come back bloody, so there’s not trains of people just running in, so the fentanyl doesn’t keep filling our schools and killing our children."

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