america pays its debts, pays it spills and they will be plenty of time to debate the policy differences. but the country has never defaulted on our debt, and we never will. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has more from the white house. the meeting lasted for more than an hour and, like last week, both sides came out and gave their version of events. the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, and the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, struck a more optimistic tone. they weren t as bitter as last time. they had both accused the president of not negotiating and not compromising. the democrats had come out, including chuck schumer, and accused the republicans of not taking default off the table, using it as a negotiating tactic. i put to kevin mccarthy if they had taken default off the table this time. he sidestepped the question, he pointed to the bill that the bill the house republicans tried to pass, but he did say that neither
kevin mccarthy, and the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, struck a more optimistic tone. they weren t as bitter as last time. they had both accused the president of not negotiating and not compromising. the democrats had come out, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries, and accused the republicans of not taking default off the table, sort of using it as a negotiating tactic. i put to kevin mccarthy, if they had taken default off the table this time? he sidestepped the question. he pointed to the bill that the house republicans are trying to pass, but he did say that neither side wants default. that was actually something that had progressed in this meeting. he was also asked about how the world is looking at america right now, and if it does default, what the global implications would be? look, i think america is the number one economy in the world. and when we get done with this negotiations, america s economy is going to be stronger because we re going to make the american economy
this meeting lasted for more than an hour. and like last week, both sides came out and gave their version of events. the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, and the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, struck a more optimistic tone. they weren t as bitter as last time. they had both accused the president of not negotiating and not compromising. the democrats had come out, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries, and accused the republicans of not taking default off the table, sort of using it as a negotiating tactic i put to kevin mccarthy, if they had taken default off the table this time? he sidestepped the question. he pointed to the bill that the house republicans are trying to pass, but he did say that neither side wants default. that was actually something that had progressed in this meeting. he was also asked about how the world is looking at america right now, and if it does default, what the global implications would be? look, i think america is the number one economy in the w
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