At the end of the 11th day of a government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats are trying to figure out a way to filling federal coffers and lifting the debt ceiling.
They’re hitting a few bumps along the way.
President Barack Obama told Speaker John Boehner he wasn’t prepared to accept the House Republican fiscal plan but said they should continue talks about a framework to reopen government, increase the nation’s borrowing limit for six months and start budget talks.
At the same time, Obama signaled openness to a Senate Republican plan penned by Maine Sen. Susan Collins to reopen the government, delay Obamacare’s tax on medical devices and raise the debt ceiling. Obama told GOP senators at a White House meeting Friday that the tax was not core to the health care law. It’s not clear if changing the tax would be enough to satiate House Republicans’ appetite to cut away at the Affordable Care Act.
“We’re on our way now to dealing with this issue,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said after the White House meeting. “The actual legislative piece, I don’t think anybody actually knows that at present.”
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