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"He pushes the envelope," William Daley, Obama's chief of staff, said in an interview. "The debate has apolitical piece that brings us back a little from what Tim may be advocating."
Even with Geithner in Christian Louboutin Thigh High Boots sale favor of deficit reduction, Republicans accuse the administration of not going far enough. Urging deep cuts in federal spending, GOP lawmakers are threatening to oppose an increase in the federal debt limit, inviting what Geithner warns would be a devastating default by the government.
In a letter to Geithner last month, 17 Republican senators warned of profligate spending by
the government and faulted him for scare-mongering in pressing Congress to lift the debt limit. "We believe it is irresponsible and harmful for you to sow the seeds of doubt in the market regarding the full faith and credit of the United States," the senators wrote.
Some Democrats, meanwhile, are christian louboutin shoes sale criticizing the administration for focusing on the deficit at the expense of creating more jobs.
Geithner says Obama must tackle the deficit now if he wants the government to be in a position to support the economy in the future and to continue to protect the elderly and the poor.
"It's been my view for some time that unless he played a major
role in shaping and negotiating the broad fiscal framework . we would be left without the capacity to do a whole range of things that are really important," Geithner, 49, said in an interview. "I have been a consistent advocate of him doing that early and often."