Sentence examples for mandatory sequestration cuts from inspiring English sources

When the committee failed to find consensus, mandatory sequestration cuts kicked in, forcing more than $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years.

It stayed within the bounds of an agreement reached between the White House and Congress last year that lifted mandatory "sequestration" cuts on both defense and domestic spending.

The two-year deal, which would raise the federal debt ceiling and lift mandatory sequestration cuts on both defense and domestic spending, has been hailed as a milestone for progress after years of partisan bickering.

Relief is also not likely to come at the federal level, where mandatory sequestration continues to impose cuts on all federal spending programs.

The proposal now under consideration would find the money by extending sequestration cuts to mandatory spending for another year, saving an estimated $17 billion.

The House bill violates that principle by replacing the military pension savings with a continuation of the sequestration cuts of mandatory programs, virtually all of which are domestic -- such as Medicare, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Social Services Block Grant.

"We had hoped that the bill would be a starting point for a broader discussion" about the importance of restoring cuts to NIH's budget from last year's mandatory sequestration, says Wolinetz, who is a lobbyist for the Association of American Universities.

But the sequestration cuts, as they are called, still contain billions of dollars in mandatory budget reductions in programs that help low-income Americans, including one that gives vouchers for housing to the poor and disabled and another that provides fortified baby formula to the children of poor women.

Even England long ago dropped mandatory sequestration laws.

She says Tea Party Republicans are cheering for the sequestration cuts.

Federal courts, which deal with organized crime and serious drug cases, don't have mandatory sequestration of jurors.