KJP Moves Goalposts As Biden Continues To Refuse To Negotiate On Debt Limit

#shorts On 4/21/2023, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “I’m just trying to get a sense of what you need to see to have this conversation between the President and the Speaker, because you’ve said you’re happy to talk about the budget; the President — or the Speaker has now put out what appears to be the closest thing he’s going to get to putting out a budget. So what are you waiting for?

KJP: So, what we’re waiting for is for them to avoid default. What we’re waiting for th- — for House Republicans is to put that on the floor so that they — we can avoid default. That’s what we want —

Reporter: So then you won’t have a conversation until they put out that clean debt plan?

KJP: We’ve been very clear about that. We do not want to negotiate on this …

Reporter: And no talking until then?

KJP: Look, they need to do that, and then we can go ahead and have a conversation about the budget.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/s6WGW9Zxu-g KJP Moves Goalposts As Biden Continues To Refuse To Negotiate On Debt Limit