CNN update:

House Speaker John Boehner — the top Republican in the fight that’s led to a government shutdown and the threat of a first-ever U.S. debt default — left the White House on Thursday evening without commenting on a highly anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama.

But his top deputy, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, described the session between Obama and House leaders as “a very useful meeting.”

“We’re going to have more discussions on both sides tonight,” the Virginia Republican said.

What that means, exactly, remains to be seen. But the White House said in a statement that no specific determination was made at the meeting.

‘No specific determination’ is a decent ways away from ‘rejection’.