Debt Limit Meeting With Biden Yielded ‘No New Movement’: McCarthy

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to the press after meeting President Joe Biden and other leaders at the White House in Washington on May 9, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Heading into his May 9 debt ceiling talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other congressional leaders, President Joe Biden joked, “We’re going to solve all the world’s problems.”

But when the meeting was over, the world still had problems, and according to McCarthy, the national debt was very much still one of them.