WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden defended the Obama administration for its willingness to extend tax cuts for the richest Americans, despite earlier promises that he and the president would fight against the Bush-era policy.
"We got to the end, we couldn't get it done, and we had to make a decision," Biden said about President Barack Obama's compromise with Republicans to allow tax cuts across the income scale to continue.
The vice president told NBC television's "Meet The Press" in an interview broadcast Sunday that he and Obama still believe tax cuts for the wealthiest are "morally troubling" and that they would fight to avoid renewing the cuts when they expire in …
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