White House Spokesperson Jean-Pierre Gets Defensive Over Biden's Budget and Debt Ceiling Strategy.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got visibly angry when pressed on President Biden's responsibilities pertaining to the process of agreeing on a budget with Congress. Jean-Pierre cut off NBC News' Kristen Welker, as the latter suggested Biden was putting the nation's financial health at risk by dragging out the budget process after Republicans announced their proposals to coincide with raising the debt limit. Jean-Pierre repeated her often-used line of calling on Republicans to bring legislation to the floor to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the nation from defaulting, but added it was not a negotiation and shouldn't be done with conditions.