Default deadline pushed to 5 June as work requirements for food aid recipients reportedly emerge as final sticking point
Negotiations over America’s looming debt crisis pushed into Saturday amid signs that a deal between Joe Biden’s administration and Republicans was close to being struck even as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic US default was nudged by a few days.
The Associated Press reported that work requirements for federal food aid recipients have emerged as a final sticking point in talks, even as Biden said on Friday that a deal on raising the debt ceiling was “very close”.