Everyone Wants to Avoid the Sequester
Posted at 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 7
The Washington Post notes that while both President Obama and House Republicans continue to make clear that they want to avoid the across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on March 1, they “also disagree vehemently on a suitable replacement.”
“As a result, they seem likely to spend the spring and perhaps a good part of the summer struggling to escape a bind of their own making… But both groups stayed away from the core reason that Obama and Republicans are at odds. In deficit deal-making to date that totals $3.6 trillion over a decade, the government’s costly benefit programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security among them — have been largely untouched.”
