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Jenny Leonard and Jordan Fabian

Biden confident US will avoid default amid tense debt talks

President Joe Biden downplayed fresh concerns that tensions in U.S. debt limit negotiations could lead to a catastrophic U.S. default, saying Republicans and Democrats will still be able to reach an agreement.

“Not at all,” Biden said Saturday in Hiroshima, Japan, when asked if he was concerned with the state of the talks.

Biden told reporters there are often hiccups in negotiations and that the two sides could bridge their differences.

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