Joe Biden is in daily contact with congressional leaders on the upcoming vote on the national debt bill. Biden said that he had reached a budget agreement with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Republican Kevin McCarthy.

On May 25, it became known that the US national debt at the end of 2022 exceeded the Russian one by 107 times. The total debt of the governments of the 13 largest debtor countries is equal to the US debt in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund.