#shorts on 4/27/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “ut Republicans in the House have now passed a bill that would prevent a default. So at what point —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Right.

Reporter: — does it have to — that doesn’t mean anything? It has to be a clean bill before the President will sit down at all and talk?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: We have said very clearly: They need to deal with what’s at stake here, what’s at hand, which is the — our e- — our economy, which is making sure that we do not default. We cannot be — we have never been — we’ve never been a deadbeat nation. And this is not the time to do that.

And this is their constitutional — this is something that they’re supposed to be doing, that they have done — I read through this — with Democratic and Republican presidents. This is their con- — basic, basic constitutional duty to do. And so we’ve been very clear on this.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/DA0VRWOlZuc
KJP Has No Good Answer For Why Biden Won’t Negotiate With Republicans On Debt Limit