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Middle-class seniors. that's not the type of compromise that's possible here. every economist out there, every respond budget framework out there looks at a balanced approach. weapon we hope that republicans will join us in that. >> i used to work at omb for president clinton. i understand the politics, but you have this bipartisan cahoots to bakley say, yes there should be shared sacrifice they're trying to protect the wealthy, and the democrats in the white house are trying to say, well action we can handle the aging population, but we're not going to ask the middle class to be a part of the...

For a government shutdown in republican hands. >> what we have been able to do is to present to the house republicans a budget framework that would cut the same amount of spending as speaker boehner and chairman rogers originally proposed. their original proposal for how much would be cut. we are now closer than we have ever been to getting an agreement. there's no reason why we should not get an agreement. as i said before, we have now matched the number that the speaker originally sought. >> then speaker boehner came out and held an abbreviated, four-minute news conference in which he reject...

Domestic spending, but at the same time make sure we are making key investments in things like education, infrastructure, and innovation and the things that are going to help us win the future and over the course of the last several months, we have identified areas where we can make substantial cuts. in fact, what we need to do so present to the house republicans, a budget framework that would cut the same amount of spending as speaker boehner and chairman rogers originally proposed. their original proposal for how much would be cut. and in some of our discussions between the white house and s...

And you are starting to see that pay off in the jobs numbers today. i think that -- on these budget negotiations, they can also come together in a bipartisan way and bring us into a fiscally responsible budget framework that does not derail the recovery and that allows us to do what the president's calling for and that is make the kind of investments we need to grow in the future. that's what the president is down in florida at this turnaround school talking about educating our workers exactly for that reason. >> mark zandi, economist at moodies, says he's taking the 10% unemployment in the fu...

He has been harping against the senate for a long time we keep passing bills in the house only to watch them go to the abyss of the senate. it is a big deal. this is a key republican priority. again, the president was inaugurated nine months ago today. obamacare's still the law of the land, infrastructure will not happen this year, there's still a question, mary kathrine, they've got the budget framework, the house will adopt it, we expect in a few days, now they have to get to the details of tax reform though which you have the same ideological geographic philosophical internal republican deb...