Obama’s Pleas Foreshadow Tense Relationship With a New Congress
Posted on AllSides December 14th, 2014
From The Left
Hours before the deadline for another government shutdown on Thursday night, President Obama ducked out of the photo line at a White House holiday party to plead by phone with the No. 3 House Democrat, Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, to help him head off a crisis.
Like a lot of White House allies, Mr. Clyburn had balked at a $1 trillion spending deal with Republicans that Mr. Obama wanted passed.
Up on Capitol Hill, Denis R. McDonough, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, was facing the same resistance...
Some content from this outlet may be limited or behind a paywall.
