{"id":373432,"date":"2011-04-08T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/08\/white-house-budget-talks-continue\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T01:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:31:44","slug":"white-house-budget-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/08\/white-house-budget-talks-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"White House budget talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"127.5710982659\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>7 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>21:31 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have met at the White House in a bid to negotiate a budget as a government shutdown looms.<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senator Harry Reid were expected to deliver a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>The talks have been deadlocked for days, with Republicans pushing far larger spending cuts than Democrats are willing to concede.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama has refused to sign another temporary funding measure. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, Mr Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met behind closed doors at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Aides to the men had already spent hours locked in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, congressional leaders from both parties insisted no deal had been reached but said they were optimistic one could be struck before a temporary measure funding the US government was to expire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no agreement on the number or policy issues,&#8221; Mr Boehner said earlier on Thursday. &#8220;I do believe that all of us believe we can get to an agreement, but we&#8217;re not there yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Reid said that although he was &#8220;disappointed we haven&#8217;t been able to get something done&#8221;, talks would continue.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have accepted cuts of more than $33bn (\u00a320bn) but some Republicans want cuts of more than $60bn to tackle the country&#8217;s huge deficit.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Non-essential services&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The US government has subsisted without a long-term budget since 1 October, funded by a series of temporary measures.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13003059#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Government shutdowns<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t<!-- pullout-items--><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- pullout-body--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> US government shut down 10 times during the Carter and Reagan administrations<\/li>\n<li> Last shutdown was in 1995 under President Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li> Law passed in 1870 prohibits government from operating if a budget hasn&#8217;t been passed<\/li>\n<li> This is interpreted to exempt so-called essential services<\/li>\n<li> These include: National security, air traffic control, some but not all medical services<\/li>\n<li> But not: Processing of visas and passports, museums and monuments, answering work emails (by non-essential workers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- pullout-links--><\/div>\n<p>The most recent of those is set to expire at midnight on Friday, forcing all government services deemed non-essential to shut down and keeping hundreds of thousands of government workers at home.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the House approved another temporary measure on Thursday &#8211; but one that would cut $12bn from spending in a single week. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/USEOPWHPO\/2011\/04\/07\/file_attachments\/21741\/SAP_on_H.R._1363.pdf\">statement<\/a> that the US government could not continue to operate on a week-to-week basis and that he would veto the Republican bill if it arrived on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>Following the negotiations on Thursday, Mr Boehner said he had expressed his disappointment to the president over his intentions to reject the measure. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats, who must pass the bill before it goes to Mr Obama, have also said they will reject it.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have said Congress has already passed too many temporary bills and must work towards a measure that will fund the government until 30 September, the end of the budget year.<\/p>\n<p>On the wider spending proposals, Republicans, urged on by the Tea Party movement, are calling for a far greater reduction in the government budget than Democrats are willing to concede, in what Republicans describe as a necessary effort to trim the $1.4 trillion (\u00a3858bn) US budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Real spending cuts&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with Mr Obama earlier on Thursday, Mr Boehner said he believed it was important to take time to put through &#8220;the largest spending cuts possible to help our economy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the House speaker also said a disagreement existed &#8220;in terms of making real spending cuts&#8221; and that talks with the White House were drifting further apart.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd10f0540956_de27-1.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"USA flag\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>Rajini Vaidyanathan looks at what services might be cut if there is a partial government shutdown<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->      <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really just more of the same. We&#8217;re going to have real spending cuts. I don&#8217;t know what some people don&#8217;t understand about this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Reid said that Republicans were insistent upon linking social policy agendas to the bill, like rewriting the Clean Air Act and bringing the issue of abortion into the spending debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue is ideology, not numbers,&#8221; Mr Reid said. &#8220;The two main issues that are holding this matter up are reproductive rights and clean air. These matters have no place on a budget bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama said in an earlier statement he believed &#8220;we need to put politics aside and work out our differences&#8221; on a spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have said the size of the cuts Republicans demand would hinder the nascent US economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the US House have pushed for $61bn (\u00a337.4bn) in cuts over last year&#8217;s spending between now and the end of the fiscal year on 30 September, and have sought to use the budget bill to dismantle Democratic policy priorities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd10f0540956_de27-1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13003059\" title=\"White House budget talks continue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House budget talks continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 April 2011 Last updated at 21:31 ET US President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have met at the White House in a bid to negotiate a budget as a government shutdown looms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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