'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown - Yahoo! News:
"By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent – 15 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years."
Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion, and won an ovation from his rank and file _tea party adherents among them.
Time to start a new party. Anyone with me?
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