{"id":1939827,"date":"2023-05-28T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T09:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-mccarthy-talk-by-phone-as-final-issues-hold-up-debt-ceiling-agreement\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T09:54:39","slug":"biden-and-mccarthy-talk-by-phone-as-final-issues-hold-up-debt-ceiling-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-mccarthy-talk-by-phone-as-final-issues-hold-up-debt-ceiling-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden and McCarthy discuss debt ceiling as final issues delay agreement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-and-mccarthy-talk-by-phone-as-final-issues-hold-up-debt-ceiling-agreement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Speaker McCarthy and President Biden Discuss Debt Ceiling Negotiations<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Saturday evening to discuss the items holding up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mitch-mcconnell-led-effort-to-trash-bob-dole-aides-career-over-peripheral-tie-to-january-6\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Mitch McConnell Led Effort to Trash Bob Dole Aide\u2019s Career over Peripheral Tie to January 6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-with-full-control-of-government-democrats-massive-wish-list-is-stalling\/\" title=\"Even With Full Control Of Government, Democrats\u2019 Massive Wish List Is Stalling\">debt ceiling<\/a> negotiations<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Sticking Points Remain<\/h3>\n<p>One of McCarthy\u2019s negotiators, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), stated that the two parties are still held up on the spending cuts and work requirements for welfare services. McHenry also noted that there are \u201cmany things\u201d the president and the speaker will discuss on their call.<\/p>\n<h3>Optimism Fades<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier in the day, McCarthy sounded optimistic that a deal could come soon, telling reporters he felt &#8220;closer to an agreement\u201d as he entered the building. However, as McHenry entered the Speaker\u2019s Office early Saturday evening, he sounded less optimistic about coming to a deal by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<h3>Major Disagreement<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a major disagreement between the two parties,\u201d McHenry said. \u201cRepublicans want to cut spending. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve offered with our approach to raising the debt ceiling. We want work requirements for able-bodied folks to get back in the workforce. Those things are big issues, and there&#8217;s no way to sort of gloss that over. And so they&#8217;re big and thorny issues that we have to reconcile in divided government.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Hope Remains<\/h3>\n<p>When asked if he still has hope, McHenry said, \u201cThere\u2019s always hope, but Miss Progress, she\u2019s a killer.\u201d There is an obligation, McHenry said, to bring \u201cthe most conservative package\u201d they can get the president to sign.<\/p>\n<h3>Only Biden and McCarthy Can Handle Disagreements<\/h3>\n<p>McHenry also noted that only Biden and McCarthy were capable of handling any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-mccarthy-talk-by-phone-as-final-issues-hold-up-debt-ceiling-agreement\/\" title=\"Biden and McCarthy discuss debt ceiling as final issues delay agreement.\">lingering disagreements<\/a>, telling reporters, \u201cmost of the issues that remain, they need to resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Pessimism Sets In<\/h3>\n<p>House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told NBC News that he would \u201cpush whatever bill solves the problem\u201d and sounded pessimistic about the status of the negotiations. \u201cWe&#8217;ll find out soon if the President is really interested in making sure we do not default,\u201d Emmer said.<\/p>\n<h3>Whip Team Seen Entering Speaker&#8217;s Office<\/h3>\n<p>Members of McCarthy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-this-why-harmeet-dhillon-fell-short-in-the-rnc-race\/\" title=\"Is This Why Harmeet Dhillon Fell Short in the RNC Race?\">whip team<\/a> were seen entering the speaker&#8217;s office throughout the afternoon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stay tuned for updates on the debt ceiling negotiations.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker McCarthy and President Biden will discuss the issues delaying debt ceiling negotiations over the phone on Saturday. The two parties are still at odds over spending cuts and work requirements for welfare services. Negotiator Rep. McHenry stated that there are &#8220;many&#8221; issues to resolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[5877,3620,10142,5487,10066,4480,8762,4065,3663],"class_list":["post-1939827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-agreement","tag-biden","tag-ceiling","tag-debt","tag-delay","tag-discuss","tag-final","tag-issues","tag-mccarthy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}