NEWSMAX: The White House won’t make an extension of the unemployment benefits program set to expire at the end of the year a mandatory clause of the emerging budget deal.
“[It would be] terrible to tell more than a million families across the country just a few days after Christmas that they’re out of benefits,” Press Secretary Jay Carney said Friday.
However, the White House doesn’t care how the extension happens, as “the vehicle that they use to do that is less important than the fact that they do it,” said Carney… (more)
