"Nope." NULL, ", said the President of the speaker." Mr. Boehner tried again. "Nope." NULL, "Mr Obama repeatedly." "John, thats it." A long silence ensued, one of the participants in the meeting said. "It was like a awkward, ' OK, well, what do you do now?"?”
That meeting broke without an agreement. But while Mr Obama hard can have kept provision on abortion, he and the majority leader Harry Reid, a broader licence - had you dozens expenditure of billions of dollars cuts that would have been unthinkable Republicans had not captured control of the House of Democrats in midterm elections last year agree.
Mr. Boehner the noise of the staunch conservatives provides for the business an early showcase knowledge, and the ability to compensate in his party, which compromises have little pleasure with the Democrats to negotiate real accomplishments with the political imperative of the backup. Even some Democrats were told that in a deeply divided Washington, Mr. Boehner negotiations this past chaotic week back in a time when party leaders more willing harked to the ground to give and to do business with each other.
"I like not its legislation, but I really like the way he runs the House," Mr. Reid said in an interview on Saturday.
Although Mr. Boehner important ground and the applause of his caucus, his approach of this week won - as Mr Obama - the risk is that him and conciliatory when map is illustrated by the 54 Republicans who voted against a previous temporary spending bill, force the speaker to votes from Democrats to get it by leave.
Both sides are to declare some WINS, and still are details of the full impact of the cuts. But interviews with White House and Congress show in the tense negotiations officials as things have down to the wire, and how virtually at the last minute, officials at the highest level were uncertain that she could prevent a remarkable formwork of the Government during the war and a fragile economic recovery.
In the end, it was with the clock is ticking towards a deadline of Friday midnight, the White House and the flood of telephone calls between the President and the speaker way to meet the less well helpers in the Capitol, where a preliminary deal Friday evening at around $38 billion in reductions for the balance of the financial year has been strengthened. Be that amount which the President himself would recognise "the largest annual expenditure cut in history."
Several White House and Democratic Congress officials said they believed that they had a deal; several times, they were wrong. She clearly said Republican officials were all together that nothing in stone carved until everything was agreed. On Friday afternoon, watches began with TV networks tick the minutes, consultant for a press conference in the White House blue room. Reporters and photographers were that an announcement imminent seized there with a touch. They were continued for six hours, such as negotiations and the business sometimes seemed as if it could fall apart.
All in all during the last four days of the budget showdown, Mr Obama and Mr Boehner more time spent with each other - in person and on the phone - as they had during the entire Mr Obama Presidency.
Their first White House meeting the week took place on Tuesday, but it ran aground.
After returning from a speech in New York holds the following day, Mr Obama again met with Mr. Boehner and Mr Reid. Both sides were closer, but the "driver" - changes as the planned parenthood change financing - were now on the table.
Mr Obama asked that they one go after the other by the driver. A White House aide, Rob Nabors, dashed from the Oval Office with a pile of 40 riders, and under the direction of a machine Xerox "during the rest of us sitting around and waiting for the copies", a senior official of the White House said. Mr. Boehner joked at one point, even car magazines to Mr Obama want to learn faster as he copier machines, and the President to mime cranks out a mimeograph.
During the frantic last 12 hours Friday Mr Obama and Mr Boehner were on the phone four times. The most central came at 11:15 pm
Reporting was contributed by Jennifer Steinhauer, Jackie Calmes, Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny.
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