“Where’s the budget? They come up with excuses,” the White House said Thursday in response to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s jab at President Biden’s age.
“What we really need from Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans is to see their budget,” Jean-Pierre said. “Where’s the budget? They come up with excuses.”
She added: “We want to see what they value. We want to see exactly what it is that they want to cut. So let’s have that budget discussion. What does the speaker want to discuss? What are the specific cuts? What taxes does he want to raise? It’s been three weeks. We’ve had our budget out.” House Republicans are threatening a default on the nation’s debt that could hurt the economy unless the White House agrees to their spending-cut demands. They raised the debt limit three times when Republican Donald Trump was president but have demanded negotiations with the Democratic president.
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