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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:23 AM Mar 2013

The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts


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. It’s just dumb. And it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt individual people and it’s 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/




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The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts (Original Post) Tx4obama Mar 2013 OP
This list sounds to me defacto7 Mar 2013 #1
I believe that half of the $85B cuts are in defense spending, those are not on the list at the link Tx4obama Mar 2013 #2
The administration has some discretion on where to take the cuts ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #3

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
1. This list sounds to me
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 04:20 AM
Mar 2013

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
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 04:24 AM
Mar 2013

Those are what the Republicans do not want to give up.

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