U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday praised Congress for its last-minute passage of legislation to raise the government's borrowing limit, describing it as a "crisis averted" in his first address to the nation from the Oval Office.Biden said he will sign the bill into law on Saturday, pointing out that "passing this budget agreement was critical. The stakes could not have been higher."His speech from the most formal of presidential settings came before the so-called "X-date" on Monday, when the Treasury Department had warned the United States would run out of money to pay all of its bills on…READ FULL ARTICLE
