Morning Edition: Cautious Support For McConnell Plan

Federal lawmakers spent the weekend working on ways to break the standstill in budget talks. While there is still hope that lawmakers can come up with a package of spending cuts and taxes, including President Obama's 4 trillion dollar so called grand bargain, with an August 2nd deadline quickly approaching, a simple raise of the debt limit, as proposed by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell will be the more likely outcome. Here to talk about reaction from Connecticut's congressional delegation is the Connecticut Mirror's Washington correspondent Deirdre Shesgreen.

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