Aides Disagree Whether GOP Softened Stance at White House Meeting

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Source: Roll Call

Senior Democratic and Republican aides are sparring over whether GOP leaders sounded a newly conciliatory tone in Tuesday’s meeting with President Barack Obama.

Aides in both parties agreed privately that there was no real progress made in the high-profile huddle between Obama and Hill leaders at the White House.

But some Democratic aides said GOP leaders acknowledged privately that they are going to have to make more of an effort to work with Democrats than they did in the past two years. “There was a measurable attitude shift by the Republicans,” one senior Democratic aide said. “We will see how long that lasts.”

Republican aides pushed back on the idea that their party leaders were softening their stance when it comes to advancing their agenda. “What a ridiculous assertion,” one GOP leadership aide said.



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