In the sequestration battle, things will only get worse

In the sequestration battle, things will only get worse

President Barack Obama on Friday sparked a Twitter explosion when he said in a press conference that he can't perform a “Jedi mind meld” on the GOP, a phrase tweeters were quick to jab at, noting that the president should

Mar 03, 2013 06:04 PM EST. The Washington Post. Sequestration is upon us. So what now? A deadline to either fund the government or risk it shutting down comes in three weeks. The next round of the debt-ceiling fight looms in late spring/early summer.

Tea Party Republicans are crowing about the “sequestration” cuts beginning today (Friday). “This will be the first significant tea party victory in that we got what we set out to do in changing Washington,” says Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), a Tea Partier

WASHINGTON â€" It's not the first time that government economic engineering has produced a time bomb with a short fuse. Back in 2011, few lawmakers, if any, thought deep and indiscriminate spending cuts, totaling about $85 billion and now starting to

The cuts from the sequestration will be less than $400 million, he said. "In my opinion, there's going to be no effect," Heflin said on Sunday's edition of "In Session, In-Depth. "I think Texas will be just fine." But Eva De Luna Castro of the more