The U.S. government shutdown rolled into its eighth day Tuesday, showing few signs of settlement as President Barack Obama indicates confidence that his minority party in the House of Representatives now would win a budget vote.
House Speaker John Boehner said today he is willing to negotiate budget issues with Obama without any conditions. The Ohio Republican told reporters Tuesday, "I'm not drawing any lines in the sand."
Republicans have said previously they want changes to Obama's signature health care law in exchange for reopening the government. They have also said they want spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.
Today Boehner said: "All we're asking for is to sit down and have this conversation."
Still, the Democrats have yielded nothing in the dispute, and their confidence appears to be growing that they and the president could win a congressional vote despite the Republicans' plurality in the 435-seat House.
"My very strong suspicion is that there are enough votes there [to win]," the president said Monday, expecting that some Republicans would cross over to get the government back to work.
Obama previously challenged Boehner to call a vote on the budget, which is stuck because Republicans want to attach provisions that would cut health-care funding.
After Boehner's Tuesday press conference, Democratic Party leaders in the House indicated skepticism about Boehner's willingness and repeated the president's confidence they could win a clean budget vote with no partisan add-ons.
An even bigger financial crisis looms next week when the government reaches the limit of its authority to borrow money.
The White House has said repeatedly the president won't negotiate with Republicans until the government is fully reopened and the debt limit has been raised. But it hasn't said the debt limit measure has to be completely "clean" of add-ons.
White House aide Jason Furman told reporters the White House could accept some add-ons if Boehner "needs to have some talking point for his caucus that's consistent with us not negotiating … that's not adding a bunch of extraneous conditions."
Another White House official, Gene Sperling, said the administration could be open to an interim, short-term debt limit extension to prevent a catastrophic default.
Republicans were sticking with a strategy of trying to pin the blame for the shutdown on Obama for being unwilling to negotiate. The House also passed legislation Monday to reopen the Food and Drug Administration, the latest in a series of piecemeal funding bills to advance through the GOP-controlled chamber.
It has been commonly assumed that Republicans would suffer politically from the shutdown, and the early polling data seems to bear that out.
A survey released Monday by the Washington Post and ABC News said disapproval of Republican handling of the budget showdown was measured at 70 per cent, a rise from 63 per cent a week earlier. Disapproval of Obama's role was statistically unchanged at 51 per cent.
In the Senate, meanwhile, Democrats plan to move quickly toward a vote to allow the government to borrow more money, challenging Republicans to a filibuster showdown as the time remaining to stop a first-ever default on U.S. obligations ticks by.
A spokesman said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could unveil the measure as early as Tuesday, setting the table for a test vote later in the week.
The measure is expected to provide enough borrowing room to last beyond next year's election, which means it likely will permit $1 trillion or more in new borrowing above the current $16.7 trillion debt ceiling that the administration says will be hit on Oct. 17. It's not expected to include new spending cuts sought by Republicans.
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