USA Today: Top Senate leaders say they are close to a deal to end the government shutdown.
USA Today: Top Senate leaders say they are close to a deal to end the government shutdown.
Obama, visiting a local food bank, told reporters that if congressional Republicans don’t agree to an increase in the debt ceiling by Thursday, “we stand a good chance of defaulting.”
Negotiators have made “progress” on a deal to raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling and reopen the government after a 14-day partial shutdown, Obama told reporters — but nothing is final “until the details are done.”
