Congressional Leaders Discuss Deal to Avert Shutdown at Cost
of Extending Cuts
According to the WSJ already looking past the current budget
impasse gripping the capital, congressional leaders are quietly considering a
deal to avert a government shutdown next month—but at the cost of prolonging
across-the-board spending cuts.
Attention is beginning to shift from Friday, when the broad
cuts known as the sequester kick in, to the next budget deadline: Congress must
pass a so-called continuing resolution by the end of March to keep funding
government operations.
Senior aides to House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) have begun discussing a bill being
prepared by House Republicans to fund ...
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