WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should not be part of the debt limit negotiations. He's calling the Virginia Republican congressman “childish.”
Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Reid said Cantor's conduct during the sensitive White House talks has shown, in Reid's words, “he shouldn't even be at the table.” Reid said other congressional leaders are negotiating in good faith as an Aug. 2 deadline approaches for raising the debt limit.
That's when the Obama administration says the government would begin defaulting if no agreement is reached to raise the borrowing limit. Leaders of both parties and the business world have said that a default would be catastrophic.
The daily talks ended Wednesday with Obama and Cantor clashing, and the president leaving the room. They resume late this afternoon.
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