WASHINGTON — Let's play truth or consequences with the budget sequestration that took effect on Friday.
"We are just beginning to see impacts of the sequestration that came into effect last Friday," she said.
The other defendants are charged with crimes ranging from entrapment and sequestration that resulted in death to failing to assist a person in peril.
"I almost did not vote for the debt deal because of the sequestration that so disproportionately targets the Department of Defense," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine.
Much of that austerity is in the form of across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration that were forced by Republicans in Congress.
The House GOP budget stays within the contours of the across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration, that were triggered by a budget agreement reached after the debt ceiling stand-off of 2011.
Bipartisan negotiations have begun informally in the Senate over ways to at least avoid the half-trillion dollars in automatic defense cuts – or sequestration – that will begin next year unless Congress intervenes.
Renewable energy sources such as wind and waves have plenty of backers.There are also direct rivals to new nuclear plants, such as fossil-fuel plants with carbon sequestration that can provide baseload power.
The budget's total 10-year savings would replace the $1.2 trillion in indiscriminate across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, that took effect March 1 after Mr. Obama and Republican leaders failed to agree on alternative deficit-reduction measures.
In a wide-ranging address, the president focused particularly on the cuts in military and domestic programs, known as sequestration, that took effect in March when he and Congressional Republicans could not agree on alternative deficit reductions.
City officials and United States Navy officers are grappling with that question because of the federal sequestration that led to broad cuts in spending on military and domestic programs.
