Joe Biden has accused Republican lawmakers of ‘holding the economy hostage’. Speaking at New York’s Hudson Valley in an appeal to lift the country’s debt limit, Biden said: ‘They’re literally, not figuratively, holding the economy hostage by threatening to default on our nation’s debt.’ Biden added: ‘There is no reason to put all this at risk, to threaten a recession, to … undermine America’s standing in the world’
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
