President Joe Biden claimed Sunday some Republicans are willing to allow the U.S. to default on its debt for the first time to prevent him from winning another presidential term.
“I think there are some MAGA Republicans in the House who know the damage that it would do to the economy and because I am president — and presidents are responsible for everything — Biden would take the blame. And that’s the one way to make sure Biden’s not re-elected,” Biden said in Japan at the G7 summit.
However, he also argue that if the U.S. defaults he would not to be blamed.
“On the merits, based on what I’ve offered, I would be blameless,” the Democrat president said. “On the politics of it, no one would be blameless. And by the way, that’s one of the — one of the things that some are contemplating.”