Biden tells reporter to ‘shush up’ as he tries to calm debt-limit fears at G-7
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan acknowledged that the US debt dispute has been a “subject of interest” in the president’s summit meetings with other world leaders.
An irritated President Biden told a reporter to “shush up” Saturday as he tried to calm jittery allies’ fears that his White House will fail to reach a debt-limit deal, potentially plunging the US and the world into economic crisis.
“I still believe we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done,” Biden told the media as he sat down for a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the G-7 economic summit in Hiroshima, Japan. ---More...
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