“But this huge issue is weighing on everyone’s mind.” is trying to push these G-7 allies to do more than they’ve done before on Russia and China,” he said. “This just puts so much tension where the U.S. is teetering on the brink of a default, according to Josh Lipsky, senior director of the GeoEconomics Center at the Atlantic Council think tank. A total ban on exports to Russia is on the table. and other G-7 nations - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy - are also considering ways to escalate economic pressure on Russia in response to its ongoing assault on Ukraine. He wants allies to impose similar measures. investment in China in advanced technology industries including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The president plans to use the annual global meeting to announce new restrictions on U.S.

White House and Republican congressional staff members plan to continue negotiations while Biden is abroad, but the outcome will be closely watched in Hiroshima, where the world’s most advanced economies are trying to assess the likelihood of a U.S. “It would be catastrophic for the American economy and the American people if we didn’t pay our bills.” “I’m confident that we’ll get the agreement on the budget and America will not default,” he said from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

The Treasury Department has warned that the government could run out of cash for the first time as soon as June 1.īiden projected optimism before leaving for Japan on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday he scrapped plans to visit Papua New Guinea and Australia next week, and will instead return to Washington this weekend for ongoing debt limit negotiations with congressional Republicans.īiden scrubbed the last leg of the trip after talkswith House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders failed to yield a deal to raise the government’s debt ceiling and avoid a default that could roil markets, choke off the flow of capital and trigger a global financial crisis. commitments in the Indo-Pacific region while calling for economic unity against China and Russia.īut political dysfunction at home was undermining Biden’s foreign policy agenda even before Air Force One took off from the U.S. President Biden will arrive at the Group of 7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Thursday with a substantial to-do list: Reassure Western allies of U.S.

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