White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly declined to state Tuesday when President Joe Biden and House Republicans must reach a debt ceiling agreement in order to allow Congress time to pass the measure and avoid a national default.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced this month that the "X Date," the point at which the United States would exhaust measures to pay its bills, could occur as soon as June 1, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated Monday that a deal must be reached this week to allow Congress enough time to pass the measure before June.

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Jean-Pierre faced several questions about the rapidly closing window to broker a deal but would not say if Biden and White House officials agreed with McCarthy.

"Negotiations are very hard. They're very difficult. Both sides have to understand that they're not going to get everything that they want, and what we're trying to get to is a budget that is reasonable, that is bipartisan, that Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate will be able to vote on and agree on," she said in one exchange. "So this is the process. That's why we're moving in this way to make sure that it's bipartisan, but also reasonable."

Later in the briefing, after again being pressed on the timeline, Jean-Pierre referred questions about timing to the Department of the Treasury.

"You're asking me for a date. I'm not going to get into dates," she responded. "Anything that's related to that, that is for the Treasury Department to speak to. What I can speak to is this budget negotiation, and what we have been doing, what we've been calling on Congress to do for the past five months, is to act. And so we're going to continue to have those conversations. We believe they've been productive."

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You can watch Tuesday's briefing in full below.