{"id":35960,"date":"2023-05-05T18:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-says-republicans-manufacturing\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:51:32","slug":"biden-says-republicans-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-says-republicans-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden says Republicans manufacturing a crisis over debt limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden sharply criticized &#8216;MAGA&#8217; Republicans for their refusal to vote in a higher federal debt ceiling, signaling that there would be little compromise from the White House at a key May 9 meeting with congressional leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans are &#8220;divided&#8221; on the debt ceiling, Biden said, speaking ahead of a meeting on U.S. investment at the White House, and so-called MAGA Republicans are pushing &#8220;draconian&#8221; cuts in the budget.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing this country needs \u2026 is a manufactured crisis,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Biden criticized House Republicans for threatening not to raise the debt limit unless Biden and Democrats agree to steep cuts in the upcoming budget. &#8220;The two are totally unrelated. When you pay the debt or not it doesn\u2019t have a damn thing to do with what your budget&#8221; is, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats should be &#8220;debating our vision of the future&#8221; in front of the American people, he said. The May 9 meeting at the White House, with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and top Democrats kicks off a frantic few weeks of negotiation before the U.S. runs out of money to pay its bills as soon as June 1. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Writing by Heather Timmons; Editing by Andrea Ricci)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-says-republicans-manufacturing\/file-photo-u-s-president-joe-biden-attends-catholic-mass-in-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440MN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440MN-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden sharply criticized &#8216;MAGA&#8217; Republicans for their refusal to vote in a higher federal debt ceiling, signaling that there would be little compromise from the White House at a key May 9 meeting with congressional leaders. Republicans are &#8220;divided&#8221; on the debt ceiling, Biden said, speaking ahead of a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-35960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ440MN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36079,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960\/revisions\/36079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}