The U.S. federal government could run out of money to pay its bills as soon as June 1, the Treasury has said, unless the debt ceiling is raised.
A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top lawmakers that was scheduled for Friday has been postponed, and the leaders agreed to meet early next week, a White House spokesperson said on Thursday.
Aides from both sides have started to discuss ways to limit federal spending, as talks on raising the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default creep forward, people familiar with
the discussions said.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Costas Pitas; editing by Jasper
Ward & Shri Navaratnam)