Harry Reid, on the Senate floor, said that he just spoke with President Barack Obama, but that they do not have a “counteroffer to make” to Republicans:
“We did have conversations last night that ended late in the evening between staffs, this morning we’ve been trying to come up with some counteroffer to my friends’ proposals,” said Reid, saying he’s had a number” of conversations with the president. “I don’t have a counteroffer to make.”
