remains intact
I heard today from Andrew Wilkow on Mike Church’s show that the sequester is able to be end arounded by the OMB who is under the Executive branch so it’s effectiveness is really minimal.
They did NOT give up the ‘Holy Grail’ (Sequestration)
We have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
McConnell said the sequester cuts remain intact in his surrender remarks on the Senate floor.
The sequester caps will be removed in January once R’s see the devastating impact they have on our military
Come on. Seriously, the only thing that matters is obamaphones work and EBT cards are filled.
The “new deal” extends debt ceiling through Feb 7(Bammy wanted a year) FEDGUVINC is funded through Jan 15.
A new conference set up for long term entitlement reform headed by Paul Ryan and Patty Murray(starts Dec 13)
If no cuts are decided on, sequestrations remains in effect (a good thing-they really kick in Jan. 2014. actual real cut in spending, not just in rates of growth)
Sequester keeps spending to 2008 levels on DISCRETIONARY spending.
Without an actual budget, rats using only Continuing Resolutions cannot increase DISCRETIONARY spending, just the stuff that’s already on ‘auto-pilot’ increase.