A new meeting between President Joe Biden and the Republican opposition, Tuesday at the White House, failed to find a compromise on raising the debt ceiling. The US president will speak again this week by phone with the main leaders of Congress.
Joe Biden has canceled the major diplomatic tour he was to make in the wake of Papua New Guinea and Australia. The White House has multiplied warnings about a possible default, a situation in which the federal state would be unable to pay a single penny, whether it is to pay salaries or pay social benefits.