The latest read on today’s White House debt deal talks.
Saturday morning debt talks at White House end in less than an hour. No word yet on any progress or on what the new way forward may be.
The congressional leadership is convening with President Obama at the White House at 11 a.m. ET for what could be described as another round of debt talks. But it seems like we’ve entered at least the beginning of the end game on this — although it remains unclear what that end game actually is.
Here’s TPM’s Brian Beutler on the end game last night with Keith Olbermann: Read More
Key detail from the collapse of the debt deal negotiations: At the last minute, House Republicans demanded that any deal include a repeal of the individual mandate provision in the new health care reform law, according to the White House.
The death toll from the massacre in Norway is now at a staggering 91. Most of the deaths came at the island youth camp of the ruling party. A right-wing Norwegian has been arrested and charged in both attacks. A police official told the AP the attack is more Norway’s “Oklahoma City” than its “World Trade Center.”
It’s safe to say that Obama’s press conference on Friday evening was one of the angrier of his time in office. In case you missed it, we’ve collected the highlights. Watch.
On a background briefing with reporters just now, the White House gave details of where they say things went wrong in the now defunct debt talks between the President and the Speaker. The sides couldn’t bridge the final $400 billion the White House wanted in tax revenue.
Ezra Klein talks to Standard and Poor’s about why it has suddenly made deficit reduction a key pillar of preserving the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating.
Brian Beutler on where the debt ceiling dilemma goes from here.