It’s the kind of risky procrastination that any teenager facing a book-report deadline would recognize.
With $85 billion in mandatory budget cuts due to start kicking in before midnight, President Obama will sit down with congressional leaders at the White House Friday morning to discuss ways to avoid those cuts. It will be their first face-to-face meeting on the subject, although they’ve known for two months that the deadline was approaching.
Neither side holds out much hope that the meeting will produce a solution. But neither can the participants — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker John A. Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — afford the political backlash of failing to meet.
Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, suggested Thursday that the president’s invitation to meet was too little, too late.
“He finally invited Speaker Boehner and me to discuss the sequester … the day it takes effect,” Mr. McConnell said. “In short, instead of changing as they promised, Washington Democrats are just turning back to the same old campaign-first strategy they’ve employed for years.”
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