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Congress

GOP Slams Obama Sequestration Report With Scant Details

Julie Samuel

Monday, September 17th, 2012

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The White House unveiled a report on potential “sequestration” budget cuts last Friday that says Pentagon accounts would be slashed by 9.4 percent but offers no details on how specific defense programs would be impacted. Republicans blasted the anxiously-awaited report, saying it doesn’t comply with the Sequestration Transparency Act. Congress passed that act last month, requiring Obama to provide more details on how the politically unpopular cuts would be implemented. The sequestration cuts are the $1.2 trillion in longterm government spending…

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