Congress reaches budget deal to avoid shutdown scenario

Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray held a joint press conference Tuesday evening to announce a two-year Congressional budget deal that would not raise taxes and would reduce the deficit by $23 billion. Compromise was the name of the game, according to both Ryan and Murray.

Ryan: "We knew that if we forced each other to compromise a core principle, we would get nowhere."

— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) December 10, 2013

RepRyan says – We can make progress toward goals, this agt is a step in the right direction, eliminate waste, cut corp welfare

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 10, 2013

Paul Ryan on his GOP budget/balanced budget proposals: "I realize that is not going to pass in this divided government."

— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) December 10, 2013

SenMurray says – the word compromise has become a dirty word in Washington

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 10, 2013

Sen Murray: We have broken through the partisanship and gridlock…to reach deal that will prevent government shutdown in January.

— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeNews) December 10, 2013

SenMurray says – Because of this deal budget process can stop lurching from crisis to crisis

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 10, 2013

Here's the part where they pat themselves on their backs for doing their job more than two years after BCA. #BudgetDeal

— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) December 10, 2013

Paul Ryan says proposed budget fits GOP principles because it reduces deficit and doesn't raise taxes. Small ball. 

— Emily Miller (@emilymiller) December 10, 2013

#heartburn MT @jonkarl Quite a sight: a joint Paul Ryan-Patty Murray presser. pic.twitter.com/4jPNDs6gKn

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 10, 2013

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl weighs in.

The WH will like this deal, of course. It would undo some of the sequester cuts & take the threat of a shutdown off the table for two years

— jonkarl (@jonkarl) December 10, 2013

But progressives won't be thrilled: defense spending goes w/out tax increases on the wealthy. And it does not extend unemployment insurance

— jonkarl (@jonkarl) December 10, 2013

But the big fight will be tea party vs. Paul Ryan. I would not be surprised to see half of the House GOP vote no on this budget deal.

— jonkarl (@jonkarl) December 10, 2013

Ryan says he expects a "healthy vote" in the House Republican caucus. Wonder if he means healthy debate.

— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) December 10, 2013

Hmm…

Sen. @marcorubio is a "no" on the Murray-Ryan budget deal

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) December 10, 2013