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US president cancelled visit to Australia and Papua New Guinea is sign of how seriously administration is taking 1 June deadline
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Joe Biden spent weeks refusing to negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling, even as the party gave no ground on the issue and the 1 June deadline for a potential US government default grew nearer.
Yesterday, the president met with the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, and the two men agreed to appoint deputies to hash out a bipartisan measure that will probably include some policy concessions demanded of Democrats by conservatives and also raise the limit.
Biden is departing Washington DC for Japan, where he’ll meet with prime minister Fumio Kishida and attend a summit of G7 leaders.
McCarthy and top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell will brief reporters in the Capitol at 11:15am ET.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will take questions from reporters as Air Force One heads to Japan. She’ll be joined by national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
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