Does White House Expect Shutdown Progress Today?

Any progress will be made today on the shutdown?

I heard from a senior administration official this morning who basically said there is nothing new, we think the endgame is what we thought.

The house has to pass a clean bill to fund the government, cannot touch the health care law, keystone, but they cannot predict when that will be.

They said that meeting yesterday, eating heading into it, it was never going to be a negotiation.

It was set up so that treasury secretary jack lew could warn the politicians about what another fight over the debt ceiling would look like.

There has been some back and forth about whether we would hear directly from the president.

In the end, it was just a statement from the white house reiterating their position that the president remains hopeful, that common sense will prevail, and that congress will not only do its job to reopen the government, but act to pay the bills.

You see the argument and the message here is merging the debt ceiling fight with the fight to fund the government.

It is not likely we will see the government reopen until we have resolution over the debt ceiling.

We will hear that message from the president today, who is leaving the white house to head to rockville, maryland to visit a local construction company.

White house press secretary jay carney said that this is a company that has been growing in recent years.

He is still planning to leave for asia this weekend?

Yes, the trip is still on, the white house is still evaluating that, but we should have a final answer by the end of the day.

He does have a big face-to-face meeting in bali with russian president vladimir putin.

That is crucial as they try to broker a deal to get cereal to turn over their chemical weapons.

Whether the political ramifications of him leaving are two great, that is what they are talking about behind closed doors.

Thank you, julianna goldman.

One message has been clear through the crisis, a government shutdown would be bad enough, but breaching the debt ceiling would bring financial armageddon.

Two weeks away from a breach,