Boehner Must Navigate Rocky Road to a Budget
By CARL HULSE
NYT
WASHINGTON — The morning after Republicans claimed the House on Nov. 2, John A. Boehner, the soon-to-be speaker, was asked how he was ever going to get a multitrillion-dollar increase in the federal debt ceiling through his new Tea Party-infused majority.
“We’ll be working that out over the next couple of months,” Mr. Boehner said in a comment that understated just how difficult that job was going to be.
Six months after becoming speaker and six weeks before the government runs out of borrowing power, Mr. Boehner will now be one of the people “working that out” directly with President Obama and his fellow Congressional leaders. Bipartisan budget talks imploded on Thursday when Representative Eric Cantor, the majority leader, took a walk.
The speaker faces quite a predicament. He has to navigate his own party’s internal politics, cut a deal with his cagey counterparts in the Senate and Mr. Obama, and steer any agreement through the House where many Republicans are sure to oppose it — all while trying not to sink the entire economy in the process.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — The morning after Republicans claimed the House on Nov. 2, John A. Boehner, the soon-to-be speaker, was asked how he was ever going to get a multitrillion-dollar increase in the federal debt ceiling through his new Tea Party-infused majority.
“We’ll be working that out over the next couple of months,” Mr. Boehner said in a comment that understated just how difficult that job was going to be.
Six months after becoming speaker and six weeks before the government runs out of borrowing power, Mr. Boehner will now be one of the people “working that out” directly with President Obama and his fellow Congressional leaders. Bipartisan budget talks imploded on Thursday when Representative Eric Cantor, the majority leader, took a walk.
The speaker faces quite a predicament. He has to navigate his own party’s internal politics, cut a deal with his cagey counterparts in the Senate and Mr. Obama, and steer any agreement through the House where many Republicans are sure to oppose it — all while trying not to sink the entire economy in the process.
(More here.)
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