House Speaker John Boehner said President Obama’s deficit-reduction plan does not demonstrate real “leadership.”
“Pitting one group of Americans against another is not leadership,“ Boehner said in a statement. “The Joint Select Committee is engaged in serious work to tackle a serious problem: the debt crisis that is making it harder to get our economy growing and create more American jobs. Unfortunately, the President has not made a serious contribution to its work today. This administration’s insistence on raising taxes on job creators and its reluctance to take the steps necessary to strengthen our entitlement programs are the reasons the president and I were not able to reach an agreement previously, and it is evident today that these barriers remain.”