House leaders divided on deficit reduction trigger

Published October 17, 2011 4:00am ET



Both Republicans and Democrats want to sound open to compromise on the deficit reduction committee, but yesterday GOP leadership identified a bipartisan “blueprint” for success, as the Democratic National Committee chair said she’d prefer spending cuts through the automatic trigger over a pure Republican proposal.

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