House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday randomly mocked President Joe Biden for being old as he appealed to meet with him to discuss raising the debt ceiling.
“I would bring lunch to the White House. I would make it soft food, if that’s what he wants,” McCarthy, 58, said during a GOP press conference, as Republicans standing next to him laughed at the gratuitous jab. “It doesn’t matter. Whatever it takes to meet.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), 57, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), 62, were among those laughing along with McCarthy.
When HuffPost asked Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), who was among those speaking at the press conference, what sort of soft food McCarthy might bring to Biden, she laughed uncomfortably. “Oh, you’ll have to ask Kevin about that,” she said.
A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
