Obama, top foes hold first post-election summit
WASHINGTON—US President Barack Obama faced off with his top Republican foes on Tuesday, groping for elusive compromise on taxes and a landmark arms control deal with Russia in their first post-election summit. The White House meeting, billed by Obama as the start of a new relationship with Republicans since voters routed his Democratic allies in the November 2 ballot, was not expected to yield any major breakthroughs. Amid deep voter anger at the sour US economy, neither side has shown much inclination to compromise on whether and how to tackle massive tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 with a built-in expiration…
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