White House deficit panel to meet amid skepticism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden leads a bipartisan meeting on Thursday that the White House is billing as the first step toward a deal to cut the ballooning federal deficit and avert a catastrophic debt default, but skeptics dismissed the meeting as a political stunt.

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