Post Politics Now: Biden hosts Democrats at White House as debt limit standoff continues – The Washington Post
Today, President Biden hosted Democratic congressional leaders at the White House to discuss an array of issues, including the ongoing standoff with House Republicans over raising the nation’s debt limit. Republicans are pushing for spending cuts in exchange for their support of legislation to raise the limit — a posture they didn’t take when President Donald Trump was in the White House. Reacting to the GOP demands, Biden told reporters, “I have no intention of letting the Republicans wreck our economy.” Democrats want a clean bill and have begun eyeing a possible way to get around the House Republican leadership.
In Georgia, a judge held a hearing Tuesday to determine whether to publicly release the findings of a special purpose grand jury that reviewed evidence in a sprawling criminal investigation into whether Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia. No immediate decision was announced.
On our radar: Harris to visit California site of mass shooting
President Biden met with Democratic congressional leaders Tuesday and warned that he wouldn’t allow Republicans to “wreck our economy” by threatening to not raise the debt limit. The president does not have any public events scheduled Wednesday. Here’s what we’ll be watching:
- Vice President Harris will travel to Monterey Park, Calif., to mourn the victims of the Jan. 21 mass killing. There’s no information on whether Harris will visit Half Moon Bay, Calif., the site of another mass killing this week.
- First lady Jill Biden partners with the Smithsonian. She will present the two outfits she wore on Inauguration Day in 2021 to the National Museum of American History to be displayed in the First Ladies Collection.
- The House will consider bipartisan legislation that would create a task force for the Federal Aviation Administration to improve the pilot messaging database. The Senate will have floor speeches but no votes are scheduled, though that could change.
