Politics | Joe Biden Cantor Bails on Budget Talks Says Boehner, Obama need to work out tax issue By Kevin Spak Posted Jun 23, 2011 10:14 AM CDT Copied House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., meets with reporters in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Eric Cantor has told reporters that he’s not attending today’s Joe Biden-led budget meeting, or any future budget meetings, because the group has reached an impasse over taxes that he thinks can only be bridged by John Boehner and President Obama. “We’ve reached the point where the dynamic needs to change,” Cantor said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “It is up to the president to come in and talk to the speaker.” Cantor said he was still optimistic, because the Biden talks had identified $2 trillion in consensus budget talks, but said the process was stalled because Democrats insisted on some tax increases, and Republicans were dead set against them. “At each meeting, it has become a little more difficult to ignore that divide,” he said. Read These Next A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. The death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 27, including 9 kids. See the best BBQ cities in the US. Iraq's national game of deception brings out the best bluffers. Report an error