"They are telling people we couldn't do entitlements, not true"

“[Boehner] couldn’t do revenues from wealthiest Americans, he walked away over that,” the official said. “They are telling people we couldn’t do entitlements, not true.”

Boehner releases a statement Saturday night that said he was backing away from a large-scale debt deal because “the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes.”

But one Republican source told The Hill, “A gulf also remains between the Speaker and the White House on the issue of medium and long-term structural reforms.”