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Article posted: 11/29/2012 9:08 PM

White House ‘cliff’ offer gets GOP cold shoulder

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House Speaker John Boehner speaks to reporters after private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Boehner said no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House in the past two weeks.

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The White House is seeking $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade and an immediate infusion of funds to aid the jobless, help hard-pressed homeowners and perhaps extend the expiring payroll tax cut, officials said Thursday as talks aimed at averting an economy-rattling "`fiscal cliff" turned testy.