23 May 2023

USA correspondent Ximena Bustillo

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 23 May 2023

Ximena has the latest on debt negotiations between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the US gets closer to a possible default.

GOP Presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott are due to announce their Presidential run.

And the United States plans to blacklist about 70 companies and organisations for selling restricted U.S. products to Russia, part of a push by G-7 nations to try to exact more economic pain on Russia for its war on Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden (L) walks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a working session on Ukraine during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Susan Walsh / POOL / AFP)

US President Joe Biden (left) walks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a working session on Ukraine during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. Photo: SUSAN WALSH / AFP

Ximena Bustillo is an NPR politics reporter based in Washington