The robust defense budget is largely intact, even under sequestration.
How budget cuts made under sequestration are threatening the Library of Congress.
He said the cuts required under sequestration would "go right at readiness, right at maintenance, right at training".
But the request, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack replied, would run counter to the legal requirement he faces under sequestration.
(In the full quote, Hagel talks about the need for a strategic rethinking of priorities — precisely the sort of thinking that's not possible under sequestration).
Robert Hale, the Pentagon's comptroller, will be on Bloomberg's "Capitol Gains" to discuss the cuts he will have to implement under sequestration.
Almost every analysis of the decline in G.D.P. attributes it to a sharp fourth quarter reduction in defense spending, cuts that are scheduled to increase drastically under sequestration.
Head Start reached about one million people in 2010, yet would have a reduction of nearly 100,000 children under sequestration.
Real baseline funding has been flat for Head Start, Title I and IDEA grants, and their financing will be cut by 5 percent under sequestration.
As with all across-the-board cuts made under sequestration, the fear is that it will take the library years to dig itself out.
"There's not even enough funds in this budget to fund our own federal programs under sequestration," the across-the-board spending cuts.
