head back because it s what five or six, seven in the morning there, and our teams are going to continue working. now, we have had a packed few days here at hiroshima and you think we have had productive meetings at the g7 summit. we also held the quad meeting in hiroshima rather than australia and important bilateral discussions with prime minister kishida of japan, prime minister albanese of australia and president zelenskyy of ukraine as well as the prime minister of india. this is my third trip to the indo-pacific as president and i look forward to rescheduling my stops in papa new guinea and australia later. i have spoken with the prime minister of papa new guinea and secretary blinken is traveling there to meet with the pacific islander partners and yi am goig to be hosting the leaders of the pacific islander forum in washington this fall because i won t be able to make it to papua new guinea. and prime minister albanese, we will have a state visit later this year. i al
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and some of it makes absolutely no sense at all. and so what we ve done is we are going to have to sit down i m hoping that speaker mccarthy is just waiting to negotiate with me when i get home, which has been, i don t know whether or not that s true or not. we ll find out. at first we weren t making progress. then we made a lot of progress. then all of a sudden we came back to the proposal that was very cut back from where they d agreed or discussed. now i don t know where we we gave a counterproposal to the counter again. i know is sounds ridiculous, but that s what we did. and i am waiting to hear the response to what we have offered. we are willing to cut spending as well as raise revenue so people start paying their fair share. again, this is raise your hand if you think the tax structure is fair. remotely fair? what do you think?
here, expected to talk about something else, it was this g-7 dominated by stories outside of what they wanted to talk about especially that debt ceiling impasse. the president wanted to talk about his clean energy action plan, he wanted to talk about energy security for g-7 nations. instead, in just his 12th solo news conference at as president be he fielded questions about why he can t come to a debt ceiling agreement. first, we weren t making progress. then we made a lot of progress, then all of a sudden came back with a proposal that was very cut back from where they d agreed or discussed. we gave a counter proposal to the counter, again, i know this sounds ridiculous but that s what we did and i m waiting to hear their response to what we offered. we re willing to cut spending. reporter: in a statement white house press secretary says the proposal mccarthy submitted was a big step backwards with demands could nt pass the senate.