#shorts On 5/4/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “You keep saying that the President next week, at this meeting with the congressional leaders, is going to lay out the consequences, outline why this is so important. You also noted, though, that you guys have been laying out the stakes for weeks, and yet nothing has changed. What makes the President think that getting in this room, laying out yet again what is at stake here is somehow going to suddenly change Republicans’ calculus?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Well, you know this President. He’s been the President. He’s been the Vice President. He’s been the senator. He’s been on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue dealing with these types of issues. He knows these folks, right? He knows the — these leaders … we know that Leader Jeffries and we know that Leader Schumer and the President are on the same page. They have been on the same page for months. This is something that Congress needs to do. And we’ve been calling on Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans to do their jobs. So, look, they’re going to have a very frank and honest conversation. This is something that the President knows how to do and has done it in various positions. And so we’ll — we’ll see how it goes.

The meeting scheduled for Tuesday, which will also include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), was solidified this week after the Treasury Department identified June 1 as a drop-dead date for the debt ceiling before the country defaults on trillions of dollars of loans.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/KuY7erpoEI8
Q: lay out stakes for weeks & yet nothing has changed A: Jeffries, Schumer & Biden on same page