April 6 (Bloomberg)--Democrats and Republicans yesterday tried to reach a spending compromise would keep the Government after President Barack Obama said that it would be "inexcusable" for the Conference to failure avoid closure imminent end of the week running.
House Chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio said Democrats at a private White House meeting that he wanted $ 40 billion dollars in current spending, according to an administration official who sought anonymity. It is higher than that $ 7 billion $ 33 billion plan legislators worked to assemble.We are still negotiating in good faith, we are not that far apart, and I hope that we will work something, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said on the Senate floor late yesterday." "The Government does step will close again.".A Boehner spokesman, Michael Steel, refused to comment on the proposal of the President.Reid and Boehner also held a private one a meeting which produces no immediate agreement but was characterized as "productive" by the two parties. Steel and Jon Summers, a spokesman for Reid, issued almost identical statements said later the two would "continue to work on a budget solution."Time is short short do with game to spend current expire on April 8. ' No Excuse'Obama, wading in the talks after weeks on the sidelines, does say that Democrats have offered reductions for the draft budget 2011 who should respond to the request of Republicans, and that the nation cannot afford a judgment of Government if an agreement is not reached by the end of the week. "We are now at a point where there is no excuse to extend this further," the President told journalists at the White House, where he hosted the meeting with the leaders of the Congress. "" " We have no time for games. We have time to try to score political points or manoeuvres or positioning. "The President said that it will continue at these meetings a day, if necessary, until an agreement is found.The confrontation this year expenditure persisted as House Republicans unveiled a draft budget for the fiscal year 2012, which would reduce the deficit in the coming years to three-quarters, with a reduction in spending $ 6 billion and a ceiling of 25% on tax rates. The proposal of the President of the Commission Budget Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would trim the deficit for the year next to 995 billion in approximately 1.4 trillion dollars now. "Scope of the Optimistic plan step ' The Real dwarf that lawmakers are arguing over now, a measure of spending to fund the Government through the 2011 fiscal year, which ends September 30, before the meeting with Boehner yesterday, Reid warned that the talks were stalling. "I'm not real optimistic - not, I am not" he told journalists at the application on the prospects for an agreement before the end of the week. "It was kept on the possibility of a further extension of funding for palliative to provide more time for talks."The Tea Party is the engine of what is happening in the House of representatives, and we cannot do what they want to do, "said Reid, referring to the anti-spending Group supported numerous Republican candidates in the elections of last year."Republican leaders also provides that little chance for an agreement. "I do not think that it is even a risk," said House Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican majority. "It appears that the Senate wants to close the Government," Boehner said after a morning meeting of Republicans.White House MeetingBoehner insisted the meeting of the White House that any agreement contain "significant reductions and limits of policy" on the administration of the Obama "According to an account of the session out of his Office. He called $ 33 billion reduction that Democrats have offered inadequate.Republicans say that they were ready for impasse continues to pass a new palliative that sink 12 billion dollars in current spending, financing the Pentagon through September 30 fiscal year and the rest of the Government to operate until April 15. complicating the debate spending y the dispute about dozens of riders of the Republican House Policy plated on their 2011 spending plan aimed at limiting the prerogatives of the administration of the Obama of environmental rules, health care and abortion, among other issues. Republicans have said they will agree only to deprive some of the directives of an agreement of budget in exchange for larger spending cuts.Obama said then that officials can haggle over the make-up of the reductions, spending policy issues have no place in the measure.Abortion, the EPA "we can not do uses budget process of the year last for arguments on abortion, to have arguments about the Environmental Protection Agency, to try to use this budget negotiation as a vehicle for ideological or political difference between the two parties" Obama said.New palliative of Republicans would provide 515.8 billion for the Pentagon and contains reductions larger than the previous short-term measures that Congress passed this year, trimmed at a rate of approximately $ 2 billion a week. It slashes $ 2.5 billion of programmes of work and health, transportation and housing programs of $ 2 billion, $ 1.4 billion each of the accounts of agriculture and homeland security and about 1.3 billion of expenditures of the Ministry of the Interior.-With the help of Laura Litvan, Nicholas Johnston, James Rowley, Catherine Dodge, Brian Faler, Laurie Asseo Washington. Editors: Leslie Hoffecker, Stephen West
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