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President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy so far have no plans to meet again to talk budget negotiations ahead of a June deadline that could trigger a debt default, the California Republican told reporters. 

Biden is set to unveil his budget on Thursday - and the GOP's budget is expected to come out sometime in April. 

McCarthy has knocked Biden for blowing past a February deadline to unveil the budget while Biden has pressed the speaker to release his own plans for spending. 

'One of the biggest challenges we have is the disappointment of the president being so delayed in doing his budget,' McCarthy said, asked when Republicans would detail their own plans. 

McCarthy claimed Republicans could not work on their own budget until seeing the Democratic framework. 'We'll analyze this budget and then we'll get to work on our budget.' 

McCarthy said he believed there could be 'common ground' but 'there won't be new taxes.' Biden's deficit reduction provisions are expected to rely heavily on new taxes on the wealthy. 

The speaker would give no other details about what will be included in the GOP budget or when exactly it would be released. 

Biden's White House has hit at Republicans for huddling with former Trump budget official Russell Vought, and Vought confirmed to the New York Times he is advising them on cuts to a 'woke and weaponized government.'

Vought has reportedly proposed a 45% cut in foreign aid, work requirements for Americans on food stamps or Medicaid, and a 43% slash in housing programs and a 29% cut to the Department of Health and Human Services. 

McCarthy also said Biden has not called him to set up a second meeting to talk budget - and urged him to do so soon. 

'He hasn't reached back out. He told me once that he would,' the speaker told reporters.  

'I believe eventually he will but that's a month wasted.

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