Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a little swipe Sunday at House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Barack Obama, charging they both "wasted" a week by chucking bombs at each other. 
  
 "We kind of wasted a week throwing volleys at each other across the Capitol," McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday." 
  
 The deal, he says, was essentially at hand a week ago. ||||| Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who is the majority's message man, said Sunday "there's no final agreement" on a debt ceiling deal and Democrats and Republicans were still wrangling over the trigger mechanism that would precipitate automatic cuts if both sides can't ultimately agree on specific cuts. 
  
  
  
 "There is no final agreement," Schumer, a top lieutenant to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) , told Gloria Borger on CNN's "State of the Union." "It's...premature to talk about any specifics." 
  
  
  
 But he quickly added: "If there's a word that would be right here that would sum up the mood, it would be relief...default is far less of a possibility now than it was a day ago." 
  
 He did, however, emphasize how difficult the deal, which is stripped of revenue increases, will be to sell to Democratic rank-and-file members of Congress and to the broader Democratic base, which is already labeling the framework as a cave-in. 
  
 Schumer said he did secure one victory: No entitlement cuts in the initial round of cuts, particularly to Medicare -- which Democrats hope to use a major issue against GOP Senate and House candidates in 2012. 
  
 The New York Democrat said the deal being discussed would include a more-or-less automatic debt ceiling extension through the end of 2012. "This is very important to President Obama and us, because we would risk default if we kicked the can down he road for the next couple of months," Schumer said. 
  
 But he emphasized that the major sticking point remains the trigger: Democrats want to ensure that the GOP would have to swallow possible tax hikes on the wealthy or defense cuts as a way of prodding them towards compromise in the future. ||||| A top White House official says "we don't have a deal" between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress to avoid a crippling default. 
  
 The White House is seen early Sunday, July 31, 2011, in Washington as the debt crisis continues. White House officials and congressional leadership will continue working Sunday to reach a potential end... (Associated Press) 
  
 But senior White House adviser David Plouffe (pluhf) tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that both sides are generally in agreement on an emerging package that would cut the deficit in two stages, with key details still being worked out. 
  
 Plouffe suggests that negotiations are still focused on how to compel Congress to approve a deficit-cutting plan of tax and entitlement reform later this year. 
  
 Obama is adamant that the nation's debt limit be extended into 2013 without being tied to that vote. Republicans want the debt limit to be the "trigger" to force Congress to act. ||||| Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) on Sunday compared the House tea party freshman's hesitance to vote for an increase in the debt ceiling to President Obama's stance when he was in the Senate. 
  
 "The tea party folks in the House who say they're standing on principle not to raise the debt ceiling remind me a lot of Senator Barack Obama who did the same thing -- voting against the debt ceiling increase when he was in the Senate," Kyl said on "Fox News Sunday." 
  
 "Sometimes people are just so firm in their belief that they think that they have to vote against the debt ceiling increase, even though the majority of us in both the Republican and Democratic parties believe that that would be a mistake," Kyl said. |||||
Output:
The end of Congress' tortured debt ceiling machinations isn't here yet, but it's in sight, says top Democratic negotiator Chuck Schumer, while adding that "It's premature to talk about any specifics." Schumer emphasized to State of the Union that the deal will be politically difficult to sell to his party, but says, "If there's a word that would be right here that would sum up the mood, it would be relief... Default is far less of a possibility now than it was a day ago." More from the Sunday dial, as per Politico: Mitch McConnell on President Obama and John Boehner: "We kind of wasted a week throwing volleys at each other across the Capitol." Jon Kyl on Tea Partiers: Those who say they're "standing on principle not to raise the debt ceiling remind me a lot of Senator Barack Obama who did the same thing." House Whip Kevin McCarthy on debt talk leadership: "You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done. Speaker Boehner has been the leader on this, of changing Washington." White House economic adviser Gene Sperling on Plan B: "While there are contingency plans being done, there are no good options. They are very very dire. Right now, our focus is on this agreement." David Plouffe on where things stand: "We don't have a deal" between Obama and congressional Republicans, he said on Meet the Press. But both sides are, as the AP puts it, "generally in agreement."