Obama Advisers Said To Be Divided on Strategy for Fiscal Talks

The debate centers on how comprehensive an agreement the White House should seek to end the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, which is set to slash $109 billion from projected defense and domestic discretionary spending in 2014.

Obama’s economic advisers, including the new Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, are at odds with his political team, including senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, and deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors, according to the people, who asked for anonymity to talk about internal deliberations.