Obama, congressional leaders fail to reach deal on sequester

Obama, congressional leaders fail to reach deal on sequester

These words - sequestration, the continuing budget resolution - maybe you agree with what President Obama called them today in his press conference, Washington gobbledygook. Our congressional correspondent Tamara Keith is going to help explain

First, I want to point out that these "brutal" and "severe" cuts were President Obama's answer to the 2011 debt-ceiling debate that was later passed by Congress; however, I voted against the sequester in 2011 because I knew

Nobody likes the sequester. Even the word is enough to send shivers of fiscal panic, or sheer political malaise, down the spines of seasoned politicians and news reporters. And today, the sequester will almost certainly happen, a year and a half after

Sequester Day has arrived; Congress has departed. (The Washington Post); As per Sequester Day tradition, Mitt Romney has emerged from his hole to utter some kind of Sequester Day nonsense: This year, he calls the

The Department of Veterans Affairs will be spared when sequestration hits March 1. But veterans will not.