NPR News Debt Deadlock Chills Consumers NPR | By NPR Staff Published June 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 11:55 Carolyn Kaster / ASSOCIATED PRESSPresident Barack Obama discusses the debt limit and federal deficit during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 29, 2011. Copyright 2011 NPR