WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of being so resistant to curbing federal spending that he was risking an agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff” of wide-ranging tax increases and spending cuts that will be automatically triggered in less than three weeks.

“Unfortunately, the White House is so unserious about cutting spending that it appears willing to slow-walk any agreement and walk our economy right up to the fiscal cliff,” Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters. “And doing that puts jobs in our country in danger.”