House Speaker John Boehner: Austerity Measures

President Barack Obama Dept: WASHINGTON A top Republican leader emerged from a meeting with the U.S. treasury secretary Thursday and accused Democrats of failing to outline specific cuts to avert deep austerity measures that threaten to send the economy into recession at the start of next year, according to The Chronicle Herald. Boehner spoke by phone with President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, and he said his remarks Thursday were the result of that conversation as well and no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House in the past two weeks, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters after the private meeting with Tim Geithner. I was hopeful we d see a specific plan for cutting spending, and we sought to find out today what the president really is willing to do. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.