So unlike the Obama regime to politicize a holiday to bash the GOP… no, not really.

Via The Hill:

The White House on Wednesday increased its pressure on Congress to extend long-term jobless aid when it reconvenes next week.

Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration is behind Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) vow to bring up a cloture vote on a temporary extension when the Senate reconvenes Monday.

“This New Year’s Day, there is likely less joy and more fear and distress in the homes of 1.3 million Americans who this week have seen their unemployment insurance suddenly cut off,” Sperling said in a statement.

The long-term aid expired Saturday after Congress failed to include an extension in the budget deal hashed out in December.

Sperling said that the extension of benefits has never been allowed to lapse in the past with long-term unemployment as high as it is today.