President Biden cancels visits to Australia and Papua New Guinea to take care of US debt disaster

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President Joe Biden will minimize a visit to Asia and Australia quick to take care of the upcoming debt disaster within the US.

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The 80-year-old has cancelled stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea and can return to the US after the G7 summit in Japan.

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He will attend the three-day summit that begins on Friday earlier than flying again to the US on Sunday.

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A supply acquainted with the president's journey planning advised Sky's US companion community NBC: "President Biden has decided to return to the United States on Sunday, immediately following the completion of the G7, to ensure Congress takes action by the deadline to avert default."

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The president was scheduled to make a quick, historic cease in Papua New Guinea, then journey to Australia for a gathering of the so-called "quad" international locations - Japan, Australia, India and the US.

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The Papua New Guinea cease would have been the primary go to by a sitting US president to the island nation of greater than 9 million individuals.

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The cancellation is a international coverage setback for an administration that has made placing a better deal with the Pacific area central to its world outreach.

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But the US Treasury has estimated the nation will go right into a crippling default as early as 1 June if Congress doesn't carry the debt ceiling.

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Mr Biden and prime congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy's US debt ceiling negotiations ended on Tuesday after lower than an hour.

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But Mr McCarthy stated popping out of the assembly: "It is possible to get a deal by the end of the week."

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Earlier on Tuesday, the White House nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby stated the Australia cease was being reevaluated.

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"We're working through, thinking through the rest of the trip right now," Mr Kirby stated, noting Mr Biden would meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia's Anthony Albanese on the G7 in Hiroshima, Japan.

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Mr Kirby advised reporters that if Biden's journey "gets truncated or changed or modified in any way," it must be seen because the president placing his priorities within the correct order.

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