The first face-to-face talks between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to break the budget logjam as a partial U.S. government shutdown entered its third day.
The Oval Office meeting yesterday evening ended with both sides reiterating their positions and the points they've been making for days, raising the prospect of a prolonged standoff over the government shutdown and raising the U.S. debt limit.
Democrats, including Obama, say Republicans must end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling as a precondition to talks on broader budgetary disputes. Republicans want to use the fiscal deadlines to extract changes to Obama's health-care law.
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