President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle on legislation to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and avoid a default. "Nothing is final," says FRANCE 24's Washington correspondent Kethevane Gorjestani, but "this is the best that we've seen so far". Both sides have made compromises, she says, and "not everbody will get what they want".


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