Obama Meets Boehner at White House for Budget Talks
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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met for a third time at the White House to discuss averting spending cuts and tax increases before a year-end deadline.
Boehner and Obama met for almost an hour late yesterday, with no public announcement of progress. In January, more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases, the so-called fiscal cliff, are scheduled to begin.