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Obama to ask for short term delay to avoid sequester, again

Submitted by emalvini on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 12:24
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Obama to ask for short term delay to avoid sequester, again

Associated Press
11:27 AM 02/05/2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials say President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.

Obama will make his request Tuesday afternoon in a public statement at the White House.

The automatic cuts, if they are allowed to proceed, could require widespread layoffs and indiscriminately affect defense programs and domestic spending accounts.

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Barry Soetoro

Submitted by HonorGod on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 12:47.

piss off.

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