Biden calls Republicans’ stance on debt ceiling ‘reckless’
By AFP
10 October 2021 |
6:51 am
Congressional Republicans' refusal to vote alongside Democrats to raise the debt ceiling is "reckless and dangerous," US President Joe Biden says in a speech from the White House.
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