By Susan Jones
January 23, 2012
House Speaker John Boehner meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner says no one in Washington has tried harder than he has to reach an agreement with Obama on solving the nation’s long-term deficit problems.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Boehner said President Obama is the stumbling block:
“The president would never say yes to fundamental reform for our tax code. He asked for more revenue. I told the president, I’ll put revenues on table, but only if we’re going to have fundamental reform of our entitlement programs. The president never said yes, and then he wanted $1 trillion worth of new taxes.
“The problem in Washington is there’s too much spending,” Boehner continued. And we’ve got to get our arms around it. Republicans in the House and Senate are committed to real reforms of our entitlement programs and real control on spending here in Washington.”
But as CNSNews.com previously reported, federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months.
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