Obama’s Hawaii Vacation Hangs on Settling Tax Cut Standoff
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A deal to break a stalemate between the White House and House Republicans means President Barack Obama may be able to avoid a potentially loaded political decision: Whether to spend Christmas with his family.
Obama was scheduled to leave last weekend for his annual holiday break in his native Hawaii, where first lady Michelle Obama and the couple’s two daughters have already arrived. That plan was derailed after the Republican-controlled House rejected a Senate bill to continue the tax cut for two months to give both sides time to work out differences over extending it for a full year.