House Speaker John Boehner (R) recounted the recent fiscal battles on Capitol Hill in an interview published online Sunday night in the Wall Street Journal, at one point sounding a weary note while discussing his leadership role.
“I need this job like I need a hole in the head,” Boehner told the Journal’s Stephen Moore.
The speaker also claimed that, during tense fiscal cliff negotiations, President Barack Obama asserted that government spending is not as grave of a problem as Republicans insist.
“At one point several weeks ago, the president said to me, ‘We don’t have a spending problem,'” Boehner said.
