Biden: If the US debt deadlock is not resolved, the Asian trip will be cancelled.
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua)-According to foreign media reports, on the 9th local time, US President Biden said that if the deadlock with the Republican Party on the US debt ceiling is not resolved, the United States will face the first debt default in history, and he may therefore cancel his trip to Asia later this month.
It is reported that on the 9th local time, US President Biden held talks at the White House with Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican McCarthy, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives jeffries, Republican leader of the Senate McConnell and Democratic leader of the Senate Schumer on raising the debt ceiling.
Agence France-Presse said that after meeting with the top Republicans in the US Congress, Biden told reporters, "If we haven’t solved this problem at the last minute … … I will not go to (Asia). "
At the same time, McCarthy told the media after the talks that he had not seen any new trends in this matter. However, he also said that the working teams of all parties will continue to negotiate, and Biden and he expect to meet again on the 12th.
According to previous reports, Biden will attend the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan from May 19th to 21st.