President Joe Biden reiterated Wednesday that he is willing to sit down with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy but not if that meeting is related to the looming debt ceiling deadline.
“Happy to meet with McCarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended,” Biden told Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich regarding a possible meeting with McCarthy. “That’s not negotiable.”
“I noticed they quote Reagan, and they quote Reagan all the time, and they quote Trump. Both of which said, I’m paraphrasing, it would be an absolute crime to not extend the debt limit.”
Biden has threatened to veto a bill that House Republicans are expected to pass Wednesday that aims to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion, or until the end of March 2024, but would also cap discretionary government spending at fiscal year 2022 levels.
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The bill is highly unlikely to pass the Democrat-held Senate, and if it did, it would run into Biden’s promise to veto.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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