Obama: I won’t negotiate over raising U.S. borrowing cap

“I will not sign another short-sighted spending bill like the one Congress sent me this week”, he said.

The government is open and operating under a continuing resolution through December. 11.

The fiercest is expected to be over long-term government funding.

Another looming standoff is over the debt ceiling. More than 151 Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted against that spending bill, a tally Obama noted.

“So the bottom line is, Congress has to do its job”. Lawmakers are working on a proposal to pay for long-term infrastructure funding through global tax code reform.

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“When it comes to the debt ceiling, we’re not going back there”, the president said at a news conference at the White House.

While Democrats have signaled their willingness to work with Boehner, conservatives eyeing his lieutenants closely ahead of leadership elections could make it hard for Republicans to compromise before the threat of another deadline.