Joshua Gordon, policy director at the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots organization that advocates deficit reduction and entitlement reform, said Black’s criticism would have been more valid in February, after Obama released a budget that didn’t include many recommendations submitted by a debt advisory commission that he created...

“It’s hard to know what more can be done (by Obama), if you assume that the debt-ceiling negotiation is a top priority of the administration, and I have to believe it is,” he said.