Plouffe Confident Debt Deal Will Pass
"These are spending cuts that, you know, were identified largely on the front-end through the work the President and Vice-President did with the Congressional leaders. They protect things like education, like medical research and this Committee is going to be charged, again, with doing the next stage but the enforcement mechanism, obviously, we wanted to do something that we thought protected the most vulnerable and that’s what this enforcement mechanism would do," Obama adviser David Plouffe told GMA.



