Barack Obama hopes that a new night of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats will lead Friday morning on a budget agreement to avoid paralysis in extremis utilities in the United States.
The U.S. president has again received Thursday night at the White House, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, and the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid. It was their fourth meeting in three days.
The two MPs reported that their views were closer but the differences were not fully addressed.Both sides will continue negotiations during the night.
U.S. utilities are threatened with paralysis on Friday night at midnight if Republicans and Democrats in Congress do not agree on funding.
"There remain some outstanding issues. These are difficult questions.They are important for both sides so I am not prepared to show
unbridled optimism but I think we've improved over yesterday, "said Barack Obama.
The U.S. president stressed the "enormous impact" would have suspended services on the state's economic recovery and the lives of millions of Americans.
"My hope is (...) to be able to announce early (Friday) to the American people that paralysis was avoided, that an agreement has been reached," he said.
In a joint statement, Harry Reid and John Boehner for their part said: "We have reduced the number of problems, however, we're still not reached agreement.We will continue to work overnight to try to resolve our remaining areas of disagreement. "
Democrats blamed the blockage in the willingness of Republicans to cut funding for birth control and efforts to protect the environment.
John Boehner, however, stressed that the problems were not confined to these two points.
In the wake of their conservative wing of the Tea Party, the Republicans became the majority in November in the House of Representatives after having campaigned against such deemed excessive weight of the federal state.
