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By Jordan Fabian and Jennifer Jacobs

October 21, 2022 at 3:55 PM UTC

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October 21, 2022 at 4:39 PM UTC

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President Joe Biden chastised Republicans for threatening to use the US debt limit as leverage to gain entitlement cuts, saying he will “not yield” to their demands if they win majorities in Congress.

“Let me be really clear. I will not yield. I will not cut Social Security. I will not cut Medicare, no matter how hard they work at it,” Biden said Friday at the White House.