You might have seen the term "sequestration" in the news lately. It is a process that automatically cuts the federal budget across all departments and agencies.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Watch at 1:05 p.m. ET: President Obama speaks on the devastating impact of the sequester on WhiteHouse.gov/Live.
What Is the Sequester?
In just a matter of days, harmful automatic cuts -- known as the sequester -- take effect, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and cutting vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform.
President Obama put forward a plan to avoid these cuts and reduce the deficit by cutting spending and closing tax loopholes. Now it's up to Congress to act.
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It starts Friday.Deep and arbitrary budget cuts that will hurt working and middle class families, cost people jobs, and reduce vital services.Sadly, there’s no plan in sight to avoid it.Once these reckless across-the-board federal budget cuts — or “sequester,” in Washington speak — takes effect, Americans will see:
- More teacher layoffs and indiscriminate cuts to special education and Head Start programs.
- Cuts to health care for military families
- A loss of four million meals for low-income seniors.
- Longer lines and less service at airports and national parks.
- More uncertainty, instability, and insecurity for the middle class
As the clock ticks down, a bipartisan agreement looks out of reach.Congressional Republicans are standing fast on their refusal to force the wealthy to pay their fair share by closing tax loopholes, even those loopholes that allow multinational corporations to get tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas. And they’ve proposed zero solutions to the sequester. They would rather let children, seniors, and investments in a middle class economy bear the sole burden of deficit reduction.On the other hand, Democrats are calling for a vote this week on our legislation that prevents this fabricated crisis, replaces the arbitrary cuts with targeted spending cuts and new revenue from closing loopholes for the wealthy. This plan would create jobs, strengthen the middle class, and responsibly reducing the deficit.Join me on Twitter and Facebook in sharing your views on what the GOP leadership in the House should do now.We need Solutions. It’s time #StopTheSequester.Sincerely,
GEORGE MILLER
Member of Congress
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