Soft Food or Starbucks: McCarthy and Biden Exchange Jabs Amid Debt Ceiling Standoff

Soft Food or Starbucks: McCarthy and Biden Exchange Jabs Amid Debt Ceiling Standoff
President Joe Biden, left, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in file images. Getty Images
Lawrence Wilson
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden continued their verbal sparring over who’s ducking whom in scheduling a meeting on the debt ceiling.

The two met to discuss the subject on Feb. 1, a meeting both described as a good start at working together. However, they have not met since as both insist the other must make the first move.