Trump administration bargainers offered a one-year budget freeze and said Democratic spending demands remained too high as talks with congressional leaders aimed at averting deep cuts in defense and domestic programs seemed no closer to resolution Wednesday. After White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
WASHINGTON — Trump administration bargainers offered a one-year budget freeze and said Democratic spending demands remained too high as talks with congressional leaders aimed at averting deep cuts in defense and domestic programs seemed no closer to resolution Wednesday.
Mnuchin said the administration would also agree to extend the federal debt limit for a year. The government is projected to deplete its legal ability to borrow money after summer, which would prompt an unprecedented failure by the government to repay its debt that could rattle the world's economy. Schumer later told reporters that"unfortunately" the White House has joined the talks. He said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell"is just in obeisance to the White House, and so that's where we're stuck right now."
Those senators, Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., have a dim view of the negotiating skills of Mulvaney, a former tea party lawmaker from South Carolina who doesn't disguise his disdain for the go along, get along style of the committee. Democrats said Mulvaney misunderstood Pelosi's numbers. But she doesn't appear to be in a hurry and made no new spending offer Wednesday, making it clear that the Democratic House wants to first pass its spending bills at its preferred higher figure.
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