#shorts On 4/25/2023, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “And specifically on Senator Klobuchar’s comments on Sunday about her position on what the President should do with respect to meeting with Speaker McCarthy, she said he should negotiate on the budget. “That is the place to negotiate, and they should start those negotiations now, not using the American people and their mortgages as hostage, because right now [you’ve] got to simply make clear we’re going to avoid default and get this behind us.”

Is that something the President would be open to? Is that something that he is ready, from that specific suggestion, to start at?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, here’s what — and I said this at the top — here’s what House Republicans are saying to us, along with the Speaker. They’re saying to us that — that they want us to agree or to support — they — “us,” meaning the Senate — the Senate and the President — to agree with every agenda that they put forth in this bill. The entire agenda. And I said this at the top: That is not negotiable, and that is — that is a devastating ask of us

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/08TbsIjA7iQ
Klobuchar: should start those negotiations now KJP: not going to negotiate