Five Obama Administration Sequester Warnings That Didn’t Pan Out
Some agencies have dealt with budget cuts by shifting money and cutting back. Other predictions were outright false.
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Obama: I Have The Juice
President tells reporters he can still do stuff. Except when he can’t.
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White House Leaves Door Open To More Piecemeal Sequester Fixes
Some Democrats say the White House should draw the line after fixing flight delays. White House keeps its options open.
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White House Sequester Moves Puzzle Allies
Support for Friday’s flight delay vote was the latest White House move on sequester that’s left Democrats on Capitol Hill grumbling. Meanwhile, the White House says Democrats in Congress don’t have the spine to take a political risk.
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Sequestered Staffer Scavenges For Meals At DC Thinktanks
”The Panel Crasher” freeloads across Washington.
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How The Sequester Could Turn Government Workers Into Foreign Spies
4.8 million Americans have access to classified information, and thousands of them are getting pay cuts. Is the sequester making us vulnerable to spies?
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Charity Groups Worry The White House Is Abandoning Them
Advocates for the poor say Obama’s bungled sequester messaging has led to public apathy. The worry: “Sequester’s a secondary story to them. You know? It’s like we’re moving on to ‘14 now.”
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Obama To Take A Pay Cut In Solidarity With Federal Workers
The president will give back 5% of his salary each month as a show of support for government workers hit by the sequester.
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Sequester Protests Take Place Across The Nation
Federal employees were rallying to end the effects of the sequester before furloughs and layoffs take place.
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Could Airport Blues Change The Sequester Narrative?
The most powerful voting bloc: annoyed airplane passengers.
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White House Points To Republicans Bemoaning Sequester Back Home
There’s more to this than the tours, White House says.
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The Sexquester Hits D.C.’s Craigslist
Congressman Underwood, Zooey Barnes is on line one.
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Obama To Host Republicans At Posh Hotel As Spending Cuts Deepen
Hoping to break sequester deadlock, Obama and Republicans are sitting down for dinner at hotel with a $1,776 “tasting menu” option.
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16 Things People Are Blaming On The Sequester
Some of these are stupider than others…
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Sequestered Development
And now, the story of a wealthy country that lost everything and the government that had no choice but to keep the nation together. Arrested Development quotes help us understand the sequester.
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Chris Christie: “I Don’t Have The First Damn Idea Of What They’re Doing” In Washington
At a press conference Monday, the New Jersey Governor chastised lawmakers for their handling of the sequester. “Real leadership would get this fixed,” Christie said.
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Saturday Night Live Explains The Coming Federal Federal Budget Cuts
This isn’t really all that different from how politicians are explaining the sequester.
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Thom Yorke’s Super-Hot Dance Moves Lead The Evening Links
When you think Radiohead, you probably don’t think of astonishing physical grace. But that… that is about to change.
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Local Newspapers Warn Of Looming Federal Budget Cuts
Communities across the country brace for the impact of the sequester.
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Obama, Congress No Closer To Avoiding Mandatory Spending Cuts
“This is not a win for anybody. This is a loss for the American people,” Obama says as cuts are set to begin taking effect.
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Senate’s Moderate “Gangs” Stay On The Sidelines As Spending Cuts Take Effect
Where did all the compromisers go? “Every time a group of us get together to try and work on a problem, we get labeled a gang and then it becomes a political issue and we never get to finish the job,” complains Isakson.
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Liberals See A Trap After The Sequester
What really scares progressives isn’t the automatic spending cuts; it’s the grand compromise that may replace them. “Entitlements may get ensnared when we go to an alternate fix,” says Rep. Nadler.
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The Biggest Slap Fight Washington Has Ever Seen
The issue of sequestration has led to lots of petty finger-pointing but little action in D.C. while regular Americans struggle.
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Budget Cuts May Hit Red States Harder
Many of the areas hit hardest by the coming sequester are those with Republican representatives in Congress. A BuzzFeed original analysis.
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House Republicans Avoid Voting To Replace Automatic Spending Cuts
“Passing these sort of things has never helped us in the press in the past,” a House Republican aide says. Efforts to maintain a fragile conference equilibrium.
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Hawaii Governor Evokes Pearl Harbor Attack To Warn Off Sequestration
The automatic spending cuts set to take effect March 1 would cause Hawaii to reduce full-time employment at the Naval base. “The plain fact is, that will undermine our capacity for readiness at Pearl Harbor,” Abercrombie says.
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Twitter’s Best Alternatives To #Obamaquester
Stop trying to make “#Obamaquester” happen, says the internet.
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Automatic Spending Cuts Could Make 100,000 More People Homeless Within A Year
Meanwhile, the federal government has left states in the dark about how to plan for the cuts.
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Local News Again Warns Of Looming Budget Cuts Hitting Communities
The news of Washington’s looming cuts to federal spending is becoming a daily topic in local papers across the country.
