Punchbowl News' founder Jake Sherman tweeted that House Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy "didn't sound terribly positive" about the progress of the U.S. debt-ceiling talks. "It's very hard to get them off that spending spree that they're addicted to," McCarthy said of Democrats.
Also, Sherman noted that the meeting between McCarthy and U.S. President Joe Biden is now to begin at 17:30 EDT (21:30 GMT), an hour later than previously reported.
