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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tried a new tactic Thursday to try to score an invitation to the White House for talks – offering to bring the 80-year-old president a 'soft food lunch' to jump-start negotiations.
McCarthy made the quip at his weekly press conference Thursday, days after warning Biden that and penning a letter accusing him of causing risk to a 'fragile economy' with his refusal to start negotiations on House Republicans' budget cutting demands.
'He is making the decision that he wants to put the economy in jeopardy. I don’t know what more I can do and how easy — I would bring lunch to the White House,' McCarthy said. 'I would make it soft food if that’s what he wants. It doesn’t matter. Whatever it takes to meet,' he said.
That was almost certainly a message to Biden's advanced age. It came days after Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an
