#shorts during a press conference, Senator Cruz said, ” President Joe Biden needs to do the same thing. And I’ll say sadly, the reason he hasn’t so far, I believe, is because his mental faculties are too diminished right now to do what he did in 2011, to sit down and actually work together on a solution to the problems. And what we’re left with is a bunch of young staffers in the White House, radical children who are perfectly willing to risk a default on the debt because they have no appreciation of the chaos and misery and damage a default would do. We should not default on our debt, but the present path we’re on is unsustainable, and Joe Biden needs to come to the table.

And I will say, it is a major victory for America that the day before yesterday, Biden finally blinked and said, “Okay, I’ll sit down and talk.” That’s the first step. Now the second step is, let’s solve the problem.”

On 5/3/2023, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Biden is playing a game of chicken with the U.S. economy. Cruz predicted that a clean debt ceiling increase without anything attached won’t pass Congress. He said the U.S. should not default on its debt but the “present path” that the U.S. government is on is “not sustainable.”

Noting that 217 House Republicans voted for the debt limit bill that passed, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said the Senate GOP wants to help the House move it through the Senate. The chamber is currently controlled by the Democrats 51-49. The Treasury Department estimated the U.S. would default on its debt by June 1 if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accepted an invitation to meet with Biden on May 9.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/qoyRGsqSvoI
Biden’s Mental Faculties and Radical Staffers: The Risk of Default Ignored