President Barack Obama is ending his Hawaiian vacation Wednesday to manufacture a late-hour bid to succeed in a fiscal-cliff deal prior to the year ends.
He's going to leave Honolulu Wednesday night and will be back in Washington on Thursday, the White House said. First lady Michelle Obama and their daughters will continue in Hawaii.
House and Senate members are required to reconvene Thursday.
Obama and Republicans have been at loggerheads over how to prevent automatic tax increases for anyone and deep spending cuts that'll be triggered inside new year lacking any agreement.
With neither side showing any sign of blinking, the battlefield will most likely shift on the Senate soon after GOP disarray inside your home stymied any progress before Christmas.
In accordance with multiple Democratic and Republican sources, no weekend conversations occurred involving the White House and Senate leaders from either party or their aides.
The principle dispute may be over taxes, specifically the demand by Obama and Democrats to increase the majority of the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush while allowing higher rates from the heart. 1990s to come back on the top income brackets.
Republicans oppose just about any increase in tax rates, and House Speaker John Boehner suffered the political indignity the other day of offering a compromise that his colleagues refused to guide.
He's going to leave Honolulu Wednesday night and will be back in Washington on Thursday, the White House said. First lady Michelle Obama and their daughters will continue in Hawaii.
House and Senate members are required to reconvene Thursday.
Obama and Republicans have been at loggerheads over how to prevent automatic tax increases for anyone and deep spending cuts that'll be triggered inside new year lacking any agreement.
With neither side showing any sign of blinking, the battlefield will most likely shift on the Senate soon after GOP disarray inside your home stymied any progress before Christmas.
In accordance with multiple Democratic and Republican sources, no weekend conversations occurred involving the White House and Senate leaders from either party or their aides.
The principle dispute may be over taxes, specifically the demand by Obama and Democrats to increase the majority of the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush while allowing higher rates from the heart. 1990s to come back on the top income brackets.
Republicans oppose just about any increase in tax rates, and House Speaker John Boehner suffered the political indignity the other day of offering a compromise that his colleagues refused to guide.
