Sen. Mitt Romney has once again called on President Joe Biden to engage in debt ceiling talks, saying it was 'frustrating' that the White House has so far failed to negotiate.
"frustrating" that the White House has so far failed to negotiate, especially when Americans' Social Security checks are on the line.
"At this stage, what's really frustrating is you have the White House saying they don't want to negotiate. It's like, guys, the nature of a democratic republic like ours is that when you have two parties — and in particular when you have one party that controls the House, and the other controls the White House — they have to work together and meet some place in the middle. And the White House is saying, 'No, we won't negotiate.
"There's no question we don't want to keep adding to the debt," he said, adding that lawmakers shouldn't look to "gimmicks" and "tricks" to get around the debt limit.he received from wealthy friends, Romney said he was waiting to see what Chief Justice John Roberts would do. "We have a lot of confidence in the Supreme Court and having that jeopardized is terribly unfortunate," he said. "You want to avoid doing the wrong stuff or the appearance of doing the wrong stuff. And it's clear that, at least from an appearance standpoint, it raises a lot of questions in the public mind, which is very unfortunate."
But still, he said, "Even the position I'm in ... you've got to take extra care not to diminish the public's respect. And, so, for instance, I don't own any stocks. I'm allowed to, I just don't. Everything I have in the stock market is in mutual funds, because I don't want there to be confusion about, oh, he did this, because he's got 100 shares of stock in XYZ company. I just avoid those things.
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