The White House and GOP Have Agreed on John Boehner’s Last Big Deal

The White House and GOP Have Agreed on John Boehner’s Last Big Deal-nationaljournal: House Speak­er John Boehner’s last week will be a busy one.  Boehner and the three oth­er top con­gres­sion­al of­fi­cials—House Minor­ity Lead­er Nancy Pelosi, Sen­ate Ma­jor­ity Lead­er Mitch Mc­Con­nell, and Sen­ate Minor­ity Lead­er Harry Re­id—have tent­at­ively reached a deal that would both raise the coun­try’s bor­row­ing au­thor­ity to avert a dev­ast­at­ing de­fault next week and lift spend­ing caps over the next two years.