President Biden to cut short upcoming foreign trip, skipping planned stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia, to focus on debt limit.
Biden will still leave Wednesday to attend a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, but will return to the United States on Sunday. He had initially planned to follow up the event in Japan with a stop in Papua New Guinea, the first by an American president, and a stay in Australia to talk about countering China’s influence.
A short time later, the decision became official, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that had not yet been made public.
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