Boehner: ‘I’ve Got A Good Relationship With The President’

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday that his relationship with the president had “no issues,” but finding common ground with him has been “difficult.”

“I’ve got a good relationship with the president,” Boehner said in an interview on CNBC’S “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo scheduled to air Thursday at 4 pm. “There’s no issues there. The problem we have is that you know, we come from two different ideological spectrums. You know, I’ve got 11 brothers and sisters, my dad owned a bar, I owned my own small business as well. And I believe the government’s too big, spends too much and nobody’s holding it accountable.”

“The president, he’s never been in the private sector, you know, he believes in bigger government,” he continued. “And so even though we believe in different things it’s our job on behalf of the country to figure out where’s the common ground.  And so finding that common ground though has been difficult.”

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