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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eric Garcia

McCarthy says debt default is ‘not an option’ but calls on Washington to ‘change its behaviour’

AP

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said that defaulting on US debt is not an option but called on Washington to change its behaviour in exchange for raising the debt limit.

The California Republican laid out House Republicans’ terms for negotiations before President Joe Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday, his first since the GOP recaptured the majority in the lower chamber.

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