Speaking earlier this morning, presidential advisor David Axelrod strongly denied that the White House was working on passing the American Jobs Act in a piece meal fashion, stating ‘We’re not in a negotiation to break up the package, and it’s not an a la carte menu. It is a strategy to get this country moving.’
Yet hours later, economic advisor Gene Sperling contradicted Axelrod when he told reporters at a jobs summit that while the administration will make a ‘strong push’ for the passage of the whole bill, but if the president were presented with parts of the plan ‘his instinct would not be to reject things he favored but to come back and keep fighting and fighting to get the entire program.’
