
Congressional leaders and White House officials on Tuesday indicated that raising the debt ceiling will be part of a broader deal on spending caps.
"We all agree debt ceiling is going to be part of an overall deal, but we're not discussing that right now,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerHillicon Valley: Biden signs order on chips | Hearing on media misinformation | Facebook's deal with Australia | CIA nominee on SolarWinds House Rules release new text of COVID-19 relief bill Budowsky: Cruz goes to Cancun, AOC goes to Texas MORE (N.Y.) told reporters after meeting with Congress’s three other party leaders and President Trump
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A White House official said the administration would be open to combining a debt limit increase and new defense and nondefense budgetary caps.
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“It has to be done somewhere. That would be a natural vehicle to put it on,” he said.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan joined for a portion of the meeting.
“We have some differences but there’s some good progress being made,” Schumer told reporters afterward.
Mulvaney declined to say whether he could agree to a two-year spending deal, which Democratic and GOP leaders favor as a strategy to avoid another government shutdown.
“We are coming back later this afternoon,” said Mulvaney, who declined to discuss any details.
They plan to resume negotiations at 4:15 p.m.

Democrats say nondefense domestic programs need to be increased alongside defense programs.
“We have certain domestic needs that are very important to us,” Schumer said.
A senior Democratic aide said before the meeting that “Democrats want parity in increases between defense and nondefense, and want to avoid sequestration at all costs.”