#shorts On 5/12/2023, KJP said, “as we’ve said, we’re not going to certainly negotiate in public. We’re going to let these conversations continue today. These are private conversations. And as we’ve said over the weekend and — once we have a date locked in for early next week, we certainly will share that with all of you.

Reporter: And then could you clarify a little bit of what — what they are discussing and what they are — in these meetings? I understand you don’t want to negotiate in public, but the President’s position had been that there should be no negotiation around the debt limit at all, that Congress should just raise it. So if the President says there should be no negotiation and they are talking, does that mean he’s backed off his opposition to negotiating to raise the debt limit?

KJP: No, not at all. He has been very clear: We are not going to negotiate over the debt limit … I’m going to be very clear and you’ve heard this from other — other leaders as well is — is that all of the three — the three of the four have said that we have to avoid default. They’ve been very clear that we have to take default off the table. I will let you guess who was the fourth that did not say that.

On 5/12/2023, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that President Joe Biden and the administration are “hoping” that the ongoing debt ceiling tension and a potential default on U.S. credit do not negatively impact American families. Biden was originally slated to hold a second meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the other congressional leaders Friday, but the group postponed until the following week as the country rapidly approaches the “X Date.” Jean-Pierre faced a number of questions on the topic during Friday’s press briefing and reiterated that Biden will not agree to specific spending cuts in exchange for a debt limit hike, as demanded by some Republicans. “There’s no deal to be had on the debt ceiling,” the press secretary told reporters. “This is something Congress needs to do. This is their constitutional duty.”

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/Fy4Zka0RTc8
BIDEN DEBT CRISIS: Karine Jean-Pierre Reiterates Biden Will Not “Negotiate Over The Debt Limit”