House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) renewed his requests to meet with President Joe Biden for negotiations over the debt ceiling crisis, taking an apparent dig at the president’s age in the process.

“I would bring the lunch to the White House,” McCarthy told reporters on Thursday. “I would make it soft food if that’s what he wants.”

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The comments come after McCarthy sent a letter earlier this week pressing Biden for a second meeting to negotiate solutions to the country’s deficits. The initial meeting, held at the White House on Feb. 1, marked the first major action related to the debt limit since the pair entered a stalemate earlier this year.

There has been no progress in the talks since that date, prompting McCarthy to urge Biden to schedule a meeting with the Republican leader before the House adjourned for a two-week recess on Thursday — which the president declined to do.

While Republicans seek to negotiate spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, Democrats are adamant that Congress must pass a clean debt ceiling hike — putting lawmakers at an impasse just months before a summer deadline that could precipitate a default.

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The impasse centers on Biden's refusal to meet for negotiations until House Republicans release their proposed budget, which GOP lawmakers say has been held back because Biden himself was delayed in releasing his proposal. Republicans have a nonbinding statutory deadline of April 15 to present their proposed budget, although it’s not clear it will be passed before the debt ceiling deadline.

The United States hit its debt ceiling on Jan. 19, raising fears of a default. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency would take “extraordinary measures” to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its obligations, but the department will only have a few months before those measures are exhausted.