After speaking by phone with the president on Sunday, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he believes both sides can find some "common ground" Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on NBC News' Meet the Press that early June is a "tough deadline" for the federal government to raise the debt ceiling. The president urged Republicans to abandon "their extreme positions," which he criticized as "frankly unacceptable" in his opening remarks at the G-7 summit in Japan.Republicans returned to the negotiating table late Friday after temporarily suspending talks with the White House, which they said were "not productive"