Updated: 7:15 p.m.

The White House and House Republican leaders are on the same side on jobs, for once.

The White House backed the GOP leadership’s latest jobs bill today, which Republicans carved out of President Barack Obama’s own jobs package and paid for with a piece of his deficit reduction proposal.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the administration supports the House’s bill, which would repeal a 3 percent tax withholding requirement for government contractors that was enacted under George W. Bush’s administration.

“We support working with them to get that done, and we believe we can,” Carney said. “The current pay-for in the House version is something we can support.”