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GOP Plan To Make Sequester Cuts More Flexible Faces Opposition

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

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Senate Republicans’ pending proposal to give the Pentagon more flexibility to administer pending “sequestration” budget cuts was panned yesterday by the White House and senators on both sides of the aisle. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) pitched legislation to their Republican colleagues yesterday that would keep the unpopular sequestration cuts--of $85 billion in defense and non-defense spending over the next seven months--but change the law so they are not applied…

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