President Joe Biden is set to land in Japan Thursday for meetings with fellow G-7 leaders, on a trip to the Pacific truncated by the pressing debt limit deadline back home.
Biden decided to continue with scheduled travel to Hiroshima, Japan, with plans to return to the United States on Sunday. He postponed what would have been a historic stop in Papua New Guinea, as well as travel to Australia for meetings of the nations known as the Quad. The leaders of those countries — Australia, India, Japan and the United States — were already going to be together as part of the G-7.
Still, Republicans on Capitol Hill were saying Wednesday that the president should not have left the country at all.
