#shorts On 5/28/2023, during press conference, a reporter asked Biden, “Mr. President, you said at the beginning that the debt ceiling was not negotiable. Isn’t that what you’ve just done here? And isn’t that what you’ve?”

Biden: You guys — look, we’re not negotiating the debt ceiling. Here’s the deal: They passed — they said they’re going to — if they pass the debt ceiling, and they said they’d only do it on a condition that it have all these cuts in it. I said, “I’m not going to do that. You pass the debt ceiling, period. I’ll negotiate with you on the cuts — what you say what’s going to happen, what the budget is going to look like.”

That’s what we are negotiating in order to get to them deciding that they’re going to go along with a new debt ceiling, meaning that it’s not attached. Something totally different attached that wasn’t attached before. But if you want to try to make it look like I made some compromise on the debt ceiling, I didn’t. I made a compromise on the budget.

Reporter: But that’s what they wanted, is you to make a compromise on the budget, and that’s what you’ve done, even though you haven’t gone as far as they wanted. Isn’t that right?

Biden: Sure. Yeah. Well — (laughs) — can you think of an alternative?

Biden Snaps at Reporter Asking Why Compromised Debt Ceiling: “I Didn’t. I Made a Compromise on the Budget”