The long-feared “sequestration” budget cuts may officially start constricting Pentagon spending today, after Democrats and Republicans in the Senate rejected each other’s plans yesterday to prevent or lessen the blow of the largely unpopular reductions. President Barack Obama plans to meet with congressional leaders at the White House today, for their first bipartisan meeting on the $1.2 trillion in decade-long sequestration cuts to defense and non-defense spending, which Washington has been grappling with for a year and a half (Defense…
Hill Leaders Head To White House On Sequestration Start Date
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