@LeaderMcConnell: "The majority needs to stop sleepwalking toward yet another preventable crisis. Democrats need to tackle the debt limit. We gave them a roadmap and three months' notice. I suggest that our colleagues get moving."

@SenSchumer: "We will need to get a bill extending the debt ceiling to the president's desk by the end of this week. We aren't asking Republicans to vote for yes, even though it's debt that they incurred, we are simply asking that they get out of the way."

Q: "Can you guarantee that the U.S. will not reach the debt ceiling? That that will not happen?"

President Biden: "No I can't. That's up to Mitch McConnell."

President Biden on Republicans: "I think, quite frankly, it's hypocritical dangerous and disgraceful. Their obstruction and irresponsibility know absolutely no bounds, especially as we're clawing our way out of this pandemic."

President Biden: "A failure to raise the debt limit will call into question Congress' willingness to meet the obligations that we've already incurred, not new ones."

Gov. @GavinNewsom (D-CA) announces first-in-the-nation COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all elementary and high school students attending school in person, pending federal authorization allowing coronavirus vaccines for children. Gov. Newsom spoke at a school in San Francisco.

@RepRichardNeal, chair of @WaysMeansCmte, spoke with reporters after House Democrats met with @POTUS in private on Budget Reconciliation negotiations.

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@POTUS told reporters after meeting with House Democratic Members of Congress in a closed session on the Budget Reconciliation bill negotiations, "We'll get it done."

@SpeakerPelosi to @LisaDNews on infrastructure: "We're on a path to win the vote. I don't want to even consider any options other than that. That's just the way it is. That's our culture...We go in it to win it."

@GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy on a clean continuing resolution that would fund the federal government until December to avoid a government shutdown: "I would vote for that. Yes."