Debt ceiling crisis overshadows Biden's Asia trip and US global power.

House and Senate Republicans criticized President Biden for leaving the U.S. for G7 meetings in Japan while staff for the White House and Congress are struggling to reach a debt ceiling agreement. Some Republican lawmakers urged him to cancel the trip to help find an agreement. The White House said Biden would cut short his trip to Asia and return to the U.S. after the G7 summit ends because of the looming deadline to find a debt ceiling agreement. Republicans have argued for months that they would only accept a higher borrowing limit for the government if it were attached to reduced spending.