A TOP US Republican and President Joe Biden on Monday both said their first one-on-one talks in months to avert a calamitous debt default were "productive" but that disagreements were still blocking any potential deal.

The White House meeting came after Biden returned from a trip to Asia early to hammer out an agreement ahead of the US Treasury's June 1 cutoff date for Congress to authorize more borrowing.

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