Sequestration Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Sequester.
FAA may close air traffic towers at smaller airports
The threat of across the board budget cuts has the U.S. Department of Transportation also talking about furloughs of workers at the Federal Aviation Administration, and that could mean both delays in air travel for travelers and the closure of air traffic towers at smaller airports nationwide. Here is a ...
White House push back continues on sequester
Stung by criticism in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times, the White House continued its aggressive campaign to push back on issues related to automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1, rejecting talk that the President has not been specific on what he wants to do ...
Questions about automatic budget cuts
There are a lot of unknowns about the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the sequester which will kick in on March 1, and that's reflected in the questions coming in from readers and listeners, so let's go through a few that were in my inbox. One big issue, ...
Pentagon details state-by-state furloughs
The Pentagon has released figures showing the impact of the plan to furlough over 700,000 civilian defense workers in order to deal with automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1. The plan, which would involve one furlough day a week from late April through the end of the ...
Gauging the sequester's impact
One of the big unanswered questions right now is what happens when we hit the March 1 deadline for automatic budget cuts? Will the cuts be "brutal" as the President has described them, or will we not notice right away? The Pentagon gave one answer on Wednesday as officials outlined ...
The sequester would really cut the budget
I know it's hard for many people to believe, but instead of just trimming the rate of increase in the federal budget, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts set to hit on March 1 would actually result in less spending by Uncle Sam. Really. Here's the basic figures: The ...
White House lays out sequester impact
The White House today released examples of what the Obama Administration says will happen if $85 billion in automatic budget cuts are allowed to go into effect on March 1, arguing the domestic spending cuts in the "sequester" would "threaten thousands of jobs and the economic security of the middle ...
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