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White House 'Absolutely' Willing To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff | Synopsis

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White House 'Absolutely' Willing To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff

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US President Barack Obama speaks on the fiscal cliff negotiations and business relations during the Washington Business Roundtable in Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2012. (Saul Loeb/AFP/GettyImages) President Obama's lead negotiator in the "fiscal cliff" talks said the administration is "absolutely" willing to allow the package of deep automatic spending cuts and across-the-board tax hikes to take effect Jan. 1, unless Republicans drop their opposition to higher income tax rates on the wealthy. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview with CNBC that both sides are "making a little bit of progress" toward a deal to avert the "cliff" but remain stuck on Obama's desired rate increase for the top U.S. income-earners. "There's no prospect for an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top two percent of the wealthiest," Geithner said.

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President Obama

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-0.0169711Obama, speaking at a meeting of 100 CEOs, warned Republicans that he would not accept a so-called "doomsday" ...
-0.278141"That is a bad strategy for America, it's bad strategy for businesses," Obama said. ...
-0.244035"That is a bad strategy for America, it's bad strategy for businesses," Obama said. "It's not a game I will play."
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John Boehner

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-0.0606698Boehner said at a morning news conference that Obama has stifled the "fiscal cliff" ...
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0"We need a response from the White House," he said. ...
0"We need a response from the White House," he said. "We can't sit here and negotiate with ourselves."
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Timothy Geithner

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-0.221491Timothy Geithner said in an interview with CNBC that both sides are "making a little bit of progress" ...
0.125792"There's no prospect for an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top two percent of the wealthiest," Geithner said. ...
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