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    Doyle McManus: Debt ceiling negotiations were hard when Biden was vice president. They're even harder now

    For a brief moment last week, it was possible to imagine that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had found a patch of common ground in their standoff over the federal debt ceiling. "We're going to come together, because there's no alternative," Biden predicted. "It's not that difficult to get to an agreement," McCarthy ventured. But by Friday, their differences didn't seem so ...
    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2023 3 minutes
    Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talk to reporters outside the West Wing after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris about raising the debt limit at the White House on May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC.

    For a brief moment last week, it was possible to imagine that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had found a patch of common ground in their standoff over the federal debt ceiling.

    "We're going to come together, because there's no alternative," Biden predicted.

    "It's not that difficult to get to an agreement," McCarthy ventured.

    But by Friday, their differences didn't seem so easy to bridge.

    McCarthy's chief negotiator briefly suspended talks, saying Biden's aides weren't being "reasonable."

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