Biden Set To Leave Country for Eight-Day Asia Trip With Debt Ceiling Talks Unresolved, Default on Horizon – IOTW Report

Biden Set To Leave Country for Eight-Day Asia Trip With Debt Ceiling Talks Unresolved, Default on Horizon

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President Joe Biden is scheduled to depart on Wednesday for an eight-day trip to Asia even as the White House has failed to reach an agreement with Congress over the debt ceiling, which must be resolved by June 1 for the United States to avoid defaulting on its loans.

Biden isn’t scheduled to return until just before Memorial Day weekend, leaving only the few days surrounding the holiday weekend for him to reach an agreement with congressional leaders. The visit conflicts with the president’s claim last week that the debt ceiling issue is the “single most important thing that’s on the agenda.” The White House and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are at odds over GOP-backed spending caps and efforts by Republicans to overturn Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and other spending programs.

Biden’s first stop will be in Hiroshima, Japan, where he will meet with victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States to defeat Japan in World War II and save millions of lives around the world. more

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