Roll Call: “This time, the scale may be smaller but the game is the same — in the
president’s eyes, either congressional Republicans agree to more new tax
revenue or they will bear responsibility for the economic damage and
hundreds of thousands of lost jobs from the sequester taking effect.”
However, First Read notes the White House “is prepared to see Congress work the old-fashioned way:
The Senate passes a budget (with White House input), the House passes a
budget (maybe all of this done before the August recess at the latest),
and then the House and Senate actually negotiate a budget to send to the
president for his signature. So no more Boehner-Obama talks, no more
Biden-McConnell discussions.”
