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No Deal Reached At White House Meeting To Avoid Government Shutdown
ResumeHouse Speaker John Boehner emerged from a meeting with President Obama this morning to say the two had not reached an agreement on how much government spending to cut for the remainder of the fiscal year, in order to avoid a government shutdown when money runs out on Friday night.
Boehner is proposing a plan to keep government funded for one more week while negotiations continue, but the White House is rejecting that idea. And while they were meeting, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin released his long-term budget plans, which include fundamentally reshaping the Medicare and Medicaid programs. We speak with Gail Chaddock, congressional correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.
This segment aired on April 5, 2011.