President Obama today is trying to revive the chances for a sweeping budget agreement to reduce the nations’ deficit after negotiations broke down yesterday. House Speaker John Boehner announced he would push for a deficit reduction deal of only $2 trillion dollars, half has much as the White House had been proposing in recent days.
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