White House Wants ‘No Strings’ on Jobless Aid

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): WASHINGTON—The White House, following several quiet weeks while President Barack Obama was vacationing in Hawaii, urged Congress on Monday to support an expanded unemployment-benefits program without offsetting the costs.

“Today is the day that 1.3 million Americans start going to their mailbox and find that the check that they expected to get today is not there,” said Gene Sperling, the director of the White House National Economic Council, during the daily White House briefing.

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