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Archives by date > 2013 > February > 25th

Rapid Fire Feb. 25, 2013: If You Don’t Yield On Sequester, We’ll Kill This Dog

Feb 25, 2013 09:35 UTC

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President Obama used his weekly address to lay the whole responsibility of the sequester on Republicans in Congress. There is a good dose of scare tactics thrown in, including at the Department of Transportation where they apparently can’t execute a 2% budget reduction except by disrupting flights across the US.

  • Suddenly the White House has very granular data on the sequester scourge, down to the state level (here’s Virginia [PDF] for instance). The Washington Post has a round up.

  • But some Republicans in Congress would rather see sequestration happen than yield further on the tax/spend mix, and defense industry support in Congress is no longer what it used to be. NYT | Politico.

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