Obama is flexing leverage on debt, immigration
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is assembling an ambitious second-term agenda, pushing aggressively where he thinks he has political leverage and moving more cautiously on issues where he has less control.
Obama is hiking pressure on congressional Republicans on the debt ceiling and immigration, two big issues in which public sentiment and political risks seem to favor him.
His refusal to negotiate on the debt ceiling is an especially sharp departure from his usually accommodating style.
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