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Budget

Sequestration Fight Shifts to House CR Debate

Julie Samuel

Monday, March 4th, 2013

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Now that the long-dreaded sequestration cuts have started, the focus in the contentious military-budget-cutting debate shifts to the House as it plans to weigh a plan to make the cuts more manageable for the Pentagon. President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached no last-minute deal during a meeting Friday morning to stop the politically unpopular reductions--of $1.2 trillion to decade-long defense and non-defense spending--from starting that same day. Lawmakers emerged from the hour-long White House huddle by basically reiterating their…

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