US President Joe Biden optimistic on debt talks but says he won’t accept ‘extreme’ Republican demands

US President Joe Biden optimistic on debt talks but says he won’t accept ‘extreme’ Republican demands

Talks to avoid a US debt default were on a knife edge Saturday as President Joe Biden warned he would not accept “extreme” Republican demands but said he remained optimistic. “I still believe we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done,” he told reporters at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, … Read more

US: Joe Biden’s $1.75 T gambit shifts focus to Democrats’ divides

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President Joe Biden delivered a framework for the latest version of his economic agenda to congressional Democrats on Thursday, drawing widespread praise within the party but leaving many details yet to be filled in. Biden delayed his departure for a series of meetings in Europe to rally his party behind the $1.75 trillion outline, scaled … Read more