Slicing a couple of trillion bucks off the deficit is one of the easiest things in the world... said no one EVER. Especially not President Obama. A Democratic President faces pressure to trim the deficit, and so he meets with the Republican Speaker of the House and strikes a deal. They agree to disappear $900 billion in government spending... and send their work to the House of Representatives. It didn't work-- Congress realized it couldn't cut that deep.  James Curry, Associate professor of Political Science U of U.

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