I just heard Obama say he may make Congress stay over and work through Christmas.
Hmmmmmmmmmm....
Right now there is no supercommittee bill, but the deadline to vote on a bill if they ever get one is Dec. 23rd, while, once again, Obama is in Hawaii on vacation.
He supposedly gets back on Jan. 2nd (though he’s been known to extend the vacay time) and the trigger for automatic spending cuts goes into effect on Jan. 15th.
So like $1.2 trillion in future spending cuts is going to be the subject of frantic backroom negotiations on Capitol Hill during the weeks that the Prez is sunning himself in Honolulu.