Deficit ‘supercommittee' hits rough patch

WASHINGTON — Even as a recent good-faith swap of offers showed a nar­row­ing of dif­fer­ences over taxes, a spe­cial deficit-cutting “super­com­mit­tee” seems to have hit a major snag just two weeks before its dead­line. The two sides can’t even agree on who should make the next move after an exchange of plans Mon­day night in which Democ­rats scaled back their demands on taxes even as Repub­li­cans for the first time offered higher tax rev­enues as part of a plan to cut deficits by $1.5 tril­lion over the com­ing decade.