Obama signs order for "sequester" budget cuts

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Obama signs order for "sequester" budget cuts (It's now official)

March 1, 2013
By Matt Spetainick

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed an order that starts putting into effect across-the-board budget cuts known as the "sequester" after he and congressional leaders failed to find an alternative budget plan.

The White House released a copy of Obama's directive entitled "Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2013." Government agencies will now begin to hack a total of $85 billion from their budgets between Saturday and October 1.


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Flashback: Obama Vows To Veto 'Any Effort' To Undo Sequester Without Equal Spending Cuts​

In November of 2011 the President told the press that there would be no "easy off ramps" to get out of the sequester. The White House explained the speech in very partisan terms: "Republicans continue to insist on protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, preventing Congress from reaching an agreement to further reduce our deficit."

Now the President has done multiple speeches asking Congress to find any way to avoid the sequester. Transcript below:

"Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.

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Flashback: Obama Vows To Veto 'Any Effort' To Undo Sequester Without Equal Spending Cuts

 

[Indofred]

The repubes forced this but will complain about a black man in the white house.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Close down the federal government for about 3 months and then send a budget with huge cuts.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The repubes forced this but will complain about a black man in the white house.

Really? So you don't have a problem with 6 trilion in debt in 4 years???

You people are fools. Don't even get me started about the people that live 80% of their population in their own crap.

That's a dream of yours right?

 

[Obamanation]

The repubes forced this but will complain about a black man in the white house.

Pathetic. You are absolutely, 100% a vision of what is tearing this Country apart.

Nobody forced this. It is a perfect example of FAILED LEADERSHIP.

...and the only people who care about the color of the President are morons like YOU!

 

[Avorysuds]

The repubes forced this but will complain about a black man in the white house.

Leave it to a progressive to be the first to mention the color of a persons skin.

 

[Politico]

Look! He actually did something!

 

[Mad Scientist]

If Obama did it, then it MUST be for the good of the State.

You'll see.

 

[Black_Label]

The repubes forced this but will complain about a black man in the white house.

Really? So you don't have a problem with 6 trilion in debt in 4 years???

You people are fools. Don't even get me started about the people that live 80% of their population in their own crap.

That's a dream of yours right?

Obama and the dems, as usual, brought the huge cuts to the table, and it passed, but the cry-baby republicans filibustered it because they refused to cut a dime of their insane spending.

 

[emptystep]

Obama's news briefing: 36:17, over 20 minutes of that were questions.

Boehner's 'new briefing': talks for under one minute, turns on his heel, and walks away as reporters start to try to get a question in.