Biden: Republicans are making an issue over the debt limit

US President Joe Biden blasted Republicans for refusing to vote on raising the federal debt ceiling suggesting there would be no compromise from the White House in a crucial May 9 meeting with congressional leaders, and said that "the last thing this country needs is a manufactured crisis".

Biden said that the Republicans are divided over the debt ceiling, before a meeting on American investment in the White House, and stressed that the Republicans and Democrats should discuss our vision for the future in front of the American people. Biden criticized House Republicans for threatening not to raise the debt limit unless Biden and the Democrats agree on deep cuts in the next budget, and said, "The two are not related at all, when you pay the debt or not, it has nothing to do with your budget