Biden says GOP must move off 'extreme' positions, and no debt limit deal solely on 'partisan terms'

President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republicans successful the U.S. House indispensable determination disconnected their "extreme positions" connected the now-stalled talks implicit raising America's indebtedness bounds and that determination would beryllium nary statement to avert a catastrophic default lone connected their terms.

"It's clip for Republicans to judge that determination is nary bipartisan woody to beryllium made solely, solely, connected their partisan terms," Biden said successful Hiroshima, Japan, wherever helium attended the Group of Seven summit.

Biden said helium had done his portion successful trying to rise the indebtedness ceiling truthful the U.S. authorities tin support paying its bills, agreeing to chopped spending. "Now it's clip for the different broadside to determination from their utmost position," helium said.

Biden and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., were expected to speech aboriginal Sunday, apt arsenic Biden flew location connected Air Force One aft cutting abbreviated his travel successful airy of the strained negotiations.

"My conjecture is he's going to privation to woody straight with maine successful making definite we're each connected the aforesaid page," Biden said of McCarthy, adding that helium believed a compromise remained wrong reach. "I'm hoping that Speaker McCarthy is conscionable waiting to negociate with maine erstwhile I get home. ... I'm waiting to find out."

GOP lawmakers are holding choky to demands for crisp spending cuts, rejecting the alternatives projected by the White House for reducing deficits.

Republicans privation enactment requirements connected the Medicaid health-care program, though the Biden medication has countered that millions of radical could suffer coverage. The GOP besides introduced caller cuts to nutrient assistance by restricting states' quality to waive enactment requirements successful places with precocious joblessness. That idea, erstwhile floated nether President Donald Trump, was estimated to origin 700,000 radical to suffer their nutrient benefits.

GOP lawmakers are besides seeking cuts to IRS backing and asking the White House to judge provisions from their projected migration overhaul.

The White House has countered by keeping defence and nondefense spending level adjacent year, which would prevention $90 cardinal successful the 2024 fund twelvemonth and $1 trillion implicit 10 years.

"I deliberation that we tin scope an agreement," Biden said.

Still, helium said: "I can't warrant that they wouldn't unit a default by doing thing outrageous."

Republicans had besides rejected White House proposals to rise revenues successful bid to further little deficits. Among the proposals the GOP objects to are policies that would alteration Medicare to wage little for medicine drugs and the closing of a twelve taxation loopholes. Republicans person refused to rotation backmost the Trump-era taxation breaks connected corporations and affluent households arsenic Biden's ain fund has proposed.

The determination to acceptable up a telephone with McCarthy came aft different start-stop time with nary outward signs of progress. Food was brought to the negotiating country astatine the Capitol connected Saturday morning, lone to beryllium carted distant hours later, and nary gathering was expected. Talks, though, could resume connected Sunday aft the 2 leaders' conversation.

McCarthy tweeted that it was the White House that was "moving backward successful negotiations."

He said "the socialist wing" of the Democratic enactment appears to beryllium successful control, "especially with President Biden retired of the country."

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson, who has worked intimately with McCarthy to signifier the GOP connection told The Associated Press precocious Saturday that determination were nary meetings scheduled Sunday. Republicans are trying to drawback the president's attraction alternatively than negotiators.

"If the president doesn't re-engage, I don't cognize the unit conversations tin carnivore fruit," Johnson said.

Biden, attending the gathering of the world's astir almighty democracies, tried to reassure them that the United States would not default, a script that would rattle the satellite economy. He said helium felt determination was headway successful the talks.

For months, Biden had refused to prosecute successful talks implicit the indebtedness limit, insisting that Congress was trying to usage the borrowing bounds ballot arsenic leverage to extract different argumentation priorities.

But with the U.S. Treasury Department saying that it could tally retired of currency arsenic soon arsenic June 1 and Republicans putting their ain authorities connected the table, the White House launched talks connected a fund woody that could travel an summation successful the indebtedness limit.