Boehner Wants Budget Deals ‘Out in the Open’

“House Speaker John Boehner told CNBC’sLarry Kudlow on Wednesday that a long-term deal on entitlements is possible, and there’s no good reason for the Obama team to have shut down the White House tour.

As the mandatory budget cuts continue to take effect, Boehner said in the exclusive interview, he believes the American people still know that Washington primarily has a spending problem.

While Boehner insisted that President Barack Obama still doesn’t understand that spending is the real issue, he was more optimistic about the President’s offers to reform entitlements. Boehner says he believes talk of limiting Social Security benefit increases and “means testing” Medicare to disqualify the wealthiest seniors, is for real and they could be a basis for a “grand bargain” with the President…..”

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