Looks like the meeting did not go well. Obama is going to make a statement at 11:35. Boehner already spoke to reporters.
The meeting over the sequester at the White House has officially started.
All the leaders are at the White House now, but no word yet on whether the talks have begun officially.
Still waiting on Boehner and then the festivities begin.
It appears as though Biden is just arriving at the White House, barely in time for the 10:05 sequester meeting.
U.S. leaders honor civil rights activist Rosa Parks with statue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American leaders unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks on Wednesday, briefly setting aside political differences to honor the civil rights heroine, who became the first black woman to have a monument inside the U.S. Capitol.
Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that galvanized the movement for equal rights for blacks in Montgomery and nationwide.
White House, Republicans dig in ahead of budget talks
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Positions hardened on
Wednesday between President Barack Obama and Republican
congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they
arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic
spending cuts beginning this week.
Looking resigned to the $85-billion in “sequestration” cuts
starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and
spelling out to employees how furloughs will work.
Obama cites Navy threat, immigrants freed as budget cuts loom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Positions hardened on Wednesday between President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic spending cuts beginning this week.
Looking resigned to the $85-billion in “sequestration” cuts starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and spelling out to employees how furloughs will work.
Obama will meet with congressional leaders on spending cuts Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will meet with top congressional leaders on Friday to discuss the deep, automatic U.S. government spending cuts slated to go into effect that day, congressional and White House officials said on Wednesday.
Obama is set to meet with Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader.
Analysis: Obama spending cuts strategy focused on waiting game
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House, while advancing an aggressive public relations campaign to highlight the damaging effects of $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, is largely resigned to the fact that they will go into effect on Friday.
With no deal expected in the few days remaining until the cuts kick in, President Barack Obama is pursuing a strategy aimed at generating outrage among Americans that he hopes will force Republicans to come to the negotiating table and agree to his demand for higher taxes after the cuts go into place.
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