"If a man looks me in the eye, gives me his word that something’s going to happen, I take it unless he breaks it. He may have broken his word to somebody else, but to me, has he made that deal — we’re nowhere near having made a deal. We agree that we should try to get a bipartisan agreement," Biden said.
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"But the Liz Cheney/McCarthy thing is above my pay grade. I mean, I have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time, let alone the Republicans," he added.
McCarthy was among the four congressional leaders who met with Biden at the White House on Wednesday, hours after the vote to expel Cheney from her House conference chair position. The leaders met to discuss Biden's more than $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.