WASHINGTON, May 27 The White House and Congress may agree to raise the national debt ceiling and prevent default in the next «hours or days,» a negotiator said Saturday from the Republican majority in the House of Representatives Patrick McHenry.
Without the sanction of legislators to expand borrowing limits, the US administration runs the risk of being unable to service its financial obligations as early as next month.
“You know, this is not how I imagined the last hours or days. But we came to a very narrow set of issues that remained to be sorted out. We had a long list for a long time, but I did not expect that we would have to deal with a very short list for a very long time «, — quotes the NBC television channel McHenry's statements.
Republicans link their agreement to raise the debt ceiling with the White House's agreement to a significant reduction in budget spending. Negotiating groups continue to work on weekends.
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“We are all tired, but this does not mean that we are ready to accept an offer that we do not consider acceptable,” McHenry said.
The Treasury announced the day before that without raising the debt ceiling, default will occur on June 5, and not on June 1, as previously predicted. The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that if the Treasury holds until June 15, quarterly tax revenue will delay the default until at least the end of July.