US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the bipartisan budget agreement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 28, 2023. US President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said they were confident on May 28, 2023 of pushing a debt crisis deal through Congress and avoiding a cataclysmic default, despite skepticism from some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. SAMUEL CORUM/BENZINGA
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached the final agreement in principle on Sunday on a deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling.
Biden and McCarthy came to an agreement on Saturday as Congress and the White House took a bipartisan approach to the debt ceiling in order to prevent the default.
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