“I’m willing to see more deficit reduction, but not out of domestic discretionary spending. I think we’ve pushed this to the limit,” Mr. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said on “Fox News Sunday” when he was asked if he would support more than the $10 billion in cuts the Democrats have offered to House Republicans…

“This is 2.5 percent, roughly, of the entire federal budget,” Mr. Hensarling, Texas Republican, said. He criticized Democrats, and President Obama specifically, for sitting on the sidelines. “We have a president who has not led,” he said.