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Boehner: Up to Democrats to prevent budget cuts

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Speaker of the House John Boehner on Wednesday sounded pessimistic about much of President Barack Obama's agenda that he outlined in his State of the Union address the night before.

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House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday it’s unlikely the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate will prevent a wave of automatic spending cuts from beginning to strike the economy in two weeks. Yet he sounded hopeful about avoiding a partial shutdown of the government when a temporary spending bill expires next month.