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Week in Review: The Beginning of March Brings the Sequester

Bethany Foxx ‘16 The third month of 2013 brought  sequestration and marked another occasion, much like the fiscal cliff, in which the federal government has been unable to come to a decision about the federal budget or the proposed budget cuts to address the running deficit. The sequester is a set of federal spending cuts […]

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Week In Review: Washington’s Lack of Compromise Leads to Sequestration

Shannon Brobst, ’15 On March 1, sequestration will take place if the Democrats and Republicans do not come to an agreement. According to the article “Hard Budget Realities as Agencies Prepare to Detail Reductions” by Jonathan Weisman from the New York Times, sequestration will cut about $85 billion dollars from the federal government’s expenditures. The […]

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