House Speaker John Boehner's stance that he will demand spending cuts in exchange for raising the federal debt ceiling is "astounding" and "disappointing," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday. "That means the Speaker of the House has just declared that it is his position that if...tea party Republicans do not get satisfaction on their partisan wish list they will allow the United States of America to default for the first time in our history with horrible consequences to middle-class families everywhere," Carney said. There were scattered reports that Boehner told some Republican House members that he wouldn't battle the White House over the debt ceiling. But in public, Boehner maintained a hard line. "If we are going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem and lack of economic growth," Boehner told reporters
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