Today, President Obama called on Congress to pass a package of spending cuts and tax changes to delay the upcoming massive budget cuts known as the sequester, scheduled to begin on March 1.
Although Obama and Congressional Republicans insisted last year that the sequester would not happen, those Republicans are now saying they might be okay with the major budget cuts because it would provide for cuts that the president isn’t willing to make on his own.
“If Congress can’t act immediately on a bigger package, if they can’t get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect,” said President Obama in the White House briefing room, “then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months.”
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2013.
