By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 13:36 EST, 12 October 2013 | UPDATED: 13:36 EST, 12 October 2013 House Speaker John Boehner today told fellow Republicans that his talks with President Barack Obama have stalled. 'The Senate needs to hold tough,' Representative Greg Walden said Boehner told House GOP lawmakers. 'The president now isn't negotiating with us.' Obama rejected the speaker’s effort to lift the debt ceiling for six weeks and reopen government in exchange for a budget negotiating process. Stalemate: Speaker of the House John Boehner walks to his office after a meeting with fellow Republicans at the Capitol in Washington today
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John Boehner and President Obama's negotiations to end the shutdown have ended
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The GOP wanted to lift the debt ceiling and reopen government in exchange for budget negotiation
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Obama rejected the plan
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A bipartisan group of Senators are now working on a new plan to reopen government
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The deadline for increasing the ceiling is just five days away
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