Obama Meetings Didn’t Ease Budget Standoff, Boehner Says

The fight between Democrats and Republicans over how to address the nation’s fiscal health continues even after a week of meetings between President Barack Obama and Republicans on Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner said.

“It’s always a good thing to engage in more conversation,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program. “But when you get down to the bottom line, the president believes that we have to have more taxes from the American people, we’re not going to get very far.”