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The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts
With Congress unable to reach a deal to avert the indiscriminate spending cuts put in place in the Budget Control Act of 2011, President Obama on Friday signed an order authorizing the government to begin canceling $85 billion from federal accounts for this fiscal year.
As Obama said during a press conference yesterday, This is not going to be a apocalypse, I think as some people have said. Its just dumb. And its going to hurt. Its going to hurt individual people and its going to hurt the economy overall. In a 83-page letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the Office of Management and Budget details the specific reductions each government program will face.
Here are the dumbest and most painful cuts: ...
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Full LIST here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/02/1662271/the-dumbest-and-most-devastating-sequester-cuts/
With Congress unable to reach a deal to avert the indiscriminate spending cuts put in place in the Budget Control Act of 2011, President Obama on Friday signed an order authorizing the government to begin canceling $85 billion from federal accounts for this fiscal year.
As Obama said during a press conference yesterday, This is not going to be a apocalypse, I think as some people have said. Its just dumb. And its going to hurt. Its going to hurt individual people and its going to hurt the economy overall. In a 83-page letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the Office of Management and Budget details the specific reductions each government program will face.
Here are the dumbest and most painful cuts: ...
-snip-
Full LIST here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/02/1662271/the-dumbest-and-most-devastating-sequester-cuts/
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The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Mar 2013
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. This list sounds to me
like exactly what the Repugs wanted to begin with, to destroy federal programs. Are they giving up anything?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. I believe that half of the $85B cuts are in defense spending, those are not on the list at the link
Those are what the Republicans do not want to give up.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)3. The administration has some discretion on where to take the cuts