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February 26, 2013 By AMK

National security insiders: Sequestration is going to happen

Sequestration is now the most likely scenario, according to 78 percent of National Journal‘s National Security Insiders, who are not optimistic that Congress and the White House will reach a deal to reduce the deficit by the March 1 deadline.

“Since neither side is able to put the national interest above their own political interests, automatic cuts will do their jobs for them,” one Insider said.

President Obama last week called on Congress to pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms to delay sequestration a few more months past March 1, to avoid the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts divided between defense and nondefense discretionary accounts “until Congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution.” Republicans, however, quickly rebuffed that plan.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/management/2013/02/national-security-insiders-sequestration-going-happen/61246/

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Budget Control Act, budget cuts, discretionery spending, sequestration, spending

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