US President Joe Biden says that a final bipartisan deal to raise the US debt ceiling now heads to Congress, where he urges "both chambers to pass that agreement." "I think it's a really important step forward," Biden says in a brief appearance before media at the White House, adding: "It takes the threat of a catastrophic default off the table, protects our hard-earned and historic economic recovery, and... represents a compromise that means no one got everything they want,"