"Washington has its head in the sand," Villaraigosa said yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. "We're dithering on the verge of default."
"Democrats won't address entitlements -- Medicare and Social Security -- and Republicans won't talk about revenue or defense spending," he said. "The fact is we have to talk about all of that."
A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, referred to comments the lawmaker made to reporters on June 28 in Washington.
"We are still hoping for a very large package that will impress the ratings agencies, impress foreign countries and astonish the American people that we're actually going to come together here and take advantage of this terrific opportunity that's provided by the president's request of us to raise the debt ceiling," McConnell said at the time.