House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top debt-ceiling negotiators abruptly left a closed-door meeting with White House representatives soon after it began Friday morning, throwing into doubt the status of talks to avoid a US default.
“Look, they’re just unreasonable,” Republican Representative Garret Graves said, adding that the talks were on a “pause.”
Graves said he did not know if the negotiators would meet again Friday or over the weekend. White House spokespeople didn’t immediately comment.
