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The negotiators sat down for another round of talks at the White House on Tuesday afternoon.</p><p>In an <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20078789-503544.html">interview with CBS News</a>, Mr. Obama said he “cannot guarantee” that the government can pay benefits next month to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/social_security_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" class="tickerized" title="More articles about Social Security.">Social Security</a> recipients, veterans and the disabled if Congress does not increase the federal debt limit, raising the political stakes even as Republicans hardened their opposition to him.</p><p>Mr. McConnell’s proposal would give Mr. Obama sweeping power to increase the government’s borrowing authority, in increments, by up to $2.4 trillion &#8212; enough, it is estimated, to cover federal obligations through next year &#8212; only if Mr. Obama specifies spending cuts of equal amounts. But Congress would not have to approve the spending cuts prior to the debt-limit increase.</p><p>It is not clear whether House Republicans would sign on to such a measure, given their drive to extract deep spending cuts in return for any debt-limit increase. <span id="more-157931"></span></p><p>Mr. McConnell, who after the midterm elections last November said Republicans’ goal would be to make Mr. Obama a one-term president, said in his Senate speech, “After years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is probably unattainable.”</p><p>At the White House, press secretary <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jay_carney/index.html?inline=nyt-per" class="tickerized" title="More articles about Jay Carney.">Jay Carney</a> responded, “This president’s going to be in office for at least another 18 months, and I think the American people expect Congress to work with him.”</p><p>With the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit just three weeks away, Tuesday seemed to mark a new low in the summer’s maneuvering between the White House and Congressional Republicans to agree to a debt-reduction package that would clear the way for a vote on the debt limit. The back-and-forth had people in both parties nervously eyeing the financial markets, fretful that the political fighting would unnerve them; to date, Wall Street has been generally complacent that the White House and Congress ultimately would come to an agreement, if only because failing to do so would hold such economic peril.</p><p>Representatives of major business groups, including the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/chamber_of_commerce_us/index.html?inline=nyt-org" class="tickerized" title="More articles about the United States Chamber of Commerce.">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> and the Business Roundtable, put out public statements urging a bipartisan accord on raising the debt limit. They had met with the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/treasury_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org" class="tickerized" title="More articles about the U.S. Treasury Department.">Treasury</a> secretary, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/timothy_f_geithner/index.html?inline=nyt-per" class="tickerized" title="More articles about Timothy F. Geithner.">Timothy F. Geithner</a>, on Monday and other business groups and individuals similarly have contacted the White House to volunteer help in reaching a compromise.</p><p>New York Mayor <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/michael_r_bloomberg/index.html?inline=nyt-per" class="tickerized" title="More articles about Michael R. Bloomberg.">Michael R. Bloomberg</a> opened an unrelated event on Tuesday morning by saying, “If America, for the first time in its history, defaults on its obligations, it would have a catastrophic effect on our financial system and on our credibility around the world. It would also take a serious toll on our economy, and that at a time when the nation is still trying to recover from the deep <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/r/recession_and_depression/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" class="tickerized" title="More articles about the recession.">recession</a>.”</p><p>“America’s good name and credit are just too important to be held hostage to Washington gridlock, and I hope that in the end cooler heads will prevail and an agreement will be reached quickly,” Mr. Bloomberg added.</p><p>In advance of what have become daily White House meetings, Congressional Republican leaders stood firm against raising taxes on the wealthy and businesses after 2013, as Mr. Obama demands as part of a “balanced package” with deep spending cuts, including in <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" class="tickerized" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare.">Medicare</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicaid/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" class="tickerized" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicaid.">Medicaid</a>.</p><p>Mr. Obama, responding to a question in an interview with CBS News, said, “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”</p><p>He added, “This is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. 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