Soft Food or Starbucks: McCarthy and Biden Exchange Jabs Amid Debt Ceiling Standoff

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden continued their verbal sparring over who’s ducking whom in scheduling a meeting on the debt ceiling.
The two met to discuss the subject on Feb. 1, a meeting both described as a good start at working together. However, they have not met since as both insist the other must make the first move.
“We have been reasonable and responsible, ask[ing] to sit down with the president for months. He is making the decision that he wants to put the economy in jeopardy,” McCarthy said in a March 30 press conference.
“I don’t know what more I can do and how easy [I can make it]. I would bring the lunch to the White House. I would make it soft food if that’s what he wants,” the speaker said, evoking laughter….}

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