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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate Sunday that negotiators were closing in on a debt limit package, but it was "not there yet. We're hopeful and confident it can be done."
Earlier Reid warned that unresolved questions remained and that “each of them must be resolved before we have a final agreement. And as we know, one problem can stop the whole agreement from going forward.”
The negotiations with White House officials continued as the clock ticked toward Tuesday, the day when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has said the government will reach its legal borrowing limit and be forced to operate solely on its daily cash inflow. It would be unable to pay all its bills and would face an almost certain downgrade by bond ratings agencies such as Standard & Poor's.
