(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would never agree to a debt ceiling deal that would require another vote before the end of 2012, and blamed “extremists” from blocking a deal now.

A reporter asked Reid Friday if he would be open to a compromise allowing another vote before the end of 2012.

“No, no, no. We cannot be in this battle all the time,” Reid said.

“Right now the extremists have locked down this Congress,” Reid continued. “We’re doing nothing. The extremists have locked down the White House. They’re not able to do their work. The country is in an economic malaise and they want to keep this up.”

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is trying to gain support for his bill that would increase the debt ceiling – or the amount the government can borrow. The Boehner bill would increase the ceiling by $1 trillion and require another debt ceiling vote in early 2012 that would require an agreement on more cuts.

 

Obama and Democrats want a single vote to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion that would last until after the 2012 elections.