What The Folly?!Roundup: Impacts of sequestration on defense and non-defense programs
- Congress & President failed to avert sequestration, $85 billion in cuts set to take effect in FY 2013
- 5 key facts about sequestration
Non-defense discretionary program cuts:
- Analysis: Impact of sequestration on non-defense discretionary spending
- Sequestration will slow development of oil, gas & coal in the U.S.
- Overview of NASA sequester cuts
- FAA sequester cuts mean fewer flights, longer delays in upcoming summer travel season
- Sequester cuts means 1,000 fewer science & technology research grants
- FBI faces $550 million shortfall if sequester takes effect
- Sequestration will cut unemployment benefits by 9%
- Overview of Department of Labor sequester cuts
- Social Security backlog will grow if sequestration forces furlough
- Sequester cuts to NOAA will hurt fishing & shipping industries
- Overview of Treasury Department sequester cuts
- Sequestration will cut federal contracts & SBA loan subsidies for small businesses
- Sequestration-induced furlough at the IRS will delay processing of tax returns
- Overview of Department of Agriculture sequester cuts
- Meat and poultry industry will lose billions if sequestration takes effect on March 1st
- Sequestration will cut food assistance to 600,000 low-income moms & children
- Analysis: Sequestration will hamper border security & immigration enforcement
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls sequestration “economically foolish and morally indefensible”
- Sequester cuts to HUD could leave 200,000 low-income seniors, families, disabled & veterans homeless
- Napolitano: Sequestration will increase wait times at airports & cruise terminals
- Excerpts from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s letter on the impacts of sequestration
- Excerpts from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu’s letter on the impacts of sequestration
- Excerpts from Secretary of State John Kerry’s letter on the impacts of sequestration
- Excerpts from Attorney General Eric Holder’s letter on the impacts of sequestration on the Department of Justice
- Excerpt from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s letter on the impacts of sequestration
- Excerpts from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s letter on the impacts of sequestration
- Transcript: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s testimony on impacts of sequestration before the Senate Appropriations Committee
- Transcript: HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan’s testimony on impacts of sequestration before the Senate Appropriations Committee
- Transcript: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s testimony on impacts of sequestration before the Senate Appropriations Committee
- Transcript: OMB Controller Daniel Werfel’s testimony on impacts of sequestration before the Senate Appropriations Committee
- Transcript: Press briefing Q&A on impacts of sequestration on non-defense discretionary funding
- Transcript: Press briefing remarks by Hunter Rawlings on the impacts of sequestration on federally-funded research & innovations
- Transcript: Press briefing remarks by Peter McPherson on the impacts of sequestration on research at universities
- Transcript: Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush’s remarks on the impacts of sequestration
- Transcript: Press briefing remarks by Marion Blakey on the impacts of sequestration on the aerospace industries
- Transcript: Press briefing remarks by Emily Holubowich of NDD United on the impacts of sequestration
Defense discretionary program cuts:
- Transcript: Testimony of Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on the impacts of sequestration
- Transcript: Testimony of Gen. Martin Dempsey on the impacts of sequestration
- Transcript: Testimony of Gen. Raymond Odierno on the impacts of sequestration on the Army
- Transcript: Testimony of Admiral Mark Ferguson on the impacts of sequestration on the Navy
- Transcript: Testimony of Gen. James Amos on the impacts of sequestration on the Marines
- Transcript: Testimony of Gen. Mark Welsh on the impacts of sequestration on the Air Force
- Transcript: Testimony of Gen. Frank Grass on the impacts of sequestration on the National Guard
- Transcript: Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s testimony on the impacts of sequestration before the Senate Appropriations Committee
Republican viewpoints:
- Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner’s remarks after the White House sequester meeting on March 1, 2013
- Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner’s remarks on sequestration on Feb. 14, 2013
Democratic viewpoints:
- Transcript: President Barack Obama’s remarks on sequestration after meeting with Congressional leaders on March 1, 2013
- Transcript: President Barack Obama blames sequestration on GOP’s “partisan recklessness and ideological rigidity”
- Transcript: Erskine Bowles calls sequestration “stupid, stupid, stupid”
Votes:
- List of 174 House Republicans who voted for sequestration
- List of 27 Senate Republicans who voted for sequestration
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