House Republican and White House negotiators were meeting midday Wednesday on President Joe Biden’s home turf for a change, as the two sides remain apart on spending levels and other priorities in the ongoing debt limit negotiations.
The meeting is taking place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House, a change from Speaker Kevin McCarthy‘s offices at the Capitol. Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., one of McCarthy’s lead negotiators, said that while the venue is changing at the request of the White House, the message from Republican negotiators is the same.
“We’ve watched as they’ve refused to recognize that there’s a spending problem,” Graves said Wednesday before leaving for the meeting. “We have a deadline that we’re up against, and we have to make sure that we close this gap on the divide.”
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