As the battle over the budget continues in Congress this week, Speaker of the House John Boehner faces what might be his first big test as he has been criticized by both the right and the left. The Tea Party has put extreme pressure on Boehner to keep him from compromising with President Obama and the Democrats; at the same time he faces a Senate that’s not under his party’s control. The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich has the latest on the budget negotiations and whether a government shutdown is still a possibility.
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