Boehner Heads for Obama Talks as No Sign of Averting Cuts
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The same cast of political leaders who agreed to a package of spending cuts designed to be intolerable to either political party gathers again this morning at the White House ready to let them begin.
The automatic cuts that threaten to eventually send poor children home from pre-school, prolong airport security wait times, reduce unemployment benefits and furlough defense workers were the way out of a standoff almost two years ago that put the nation on the edge of a debt default.