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Onsite Coverage: Warner Says Tax Increase Difficult in Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan

WASHINGTON — "Gang of Six" pessimistic about long-term plan because of House GOP opposition.

By Claude R. Marx | Updated on July 28, 2011

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Warner, a leader of a group of senators trying to find a solution to the debt ceiling and deficit crisis, said today that it would be almost impossible to get tax increases in a long-term plan to cut the deficit because of the views of House Republicans.

The measures being proposed by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both call for short-term deficit reductions to be achieved only through spending cuts.

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