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Congress

House Anti-Sequestration Plans Advance

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

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The House is expected to weigh this month a new bill from the House Budget Committee chairman to start undoing planned “sequestration” cuts to the Pentagon’s budget. The bill, which Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) filed in the House last Friday, is intended to prevent the first year of cuts to defense and non-defense spending, which total $1.2 trillion over nine years, mandated by a so-called “sequestration” process. The sequestration reductions, which are slated to start next January, were triggered by…

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