New Delhi, May 11 -- WASHINGTON, May 11 : US President Joe Biden and Congressional leaders from across the aisle will meet again on Friday as their first meeting ended in a stalemate to help resolve the impending interest payment debt default crisis after a contentious confrontation at the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon.
While the Republican Congressmen and Democrats traded charges of being unreasonable and unrelenting on their stands, for the first time, President Biden confirmed reports that the White House has been discussing a unilateral step of invoking the 14th amendment to the constitution to get over Congress and bypass the debt ceiling limit. But Biden seemed equally firm to dismiss the idea, saying it would lead to concerns of ...