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A. Colman, President Biden welcomes the four-top congressional leaders to the White House

today.

At issue is the looming debt ceiling.

The talks are an attempt to resolve the dispute over terms for increasing the federal

government's borrowing limit.

And B.R. Swinzer-Johnston reports a critical deadline is coming early next month.

Today's meeting sets the stage for the next phase of the stalemate and raises questions

about whether President Biden will negotiate the terms for lifting the borrowing limit.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warned on Monday that Biden has no plans

to change course.

We should not have a House Republicans manufacturing a crisis on something that has been done 78

times since 1960.

This is their constitutional duty.

Congress must act.

That's what the president is going to make very clear.

Republicans are refusing to raise the debt limit without making deep cuts in government

spending, with the nation inching closer to a potential default.

The two sides are up against the clock to reach an agreement.

Windsor-Johnston, NPR News, Washington.

U.S. officials say the number of migrants stopped at the southern U.S. border is increasing.

The border patrol recorded almost 9,000 apprehensions per day over the weekend.

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