Voice of America: Obama Asks Congress to Avoid 'Brutal' Spending Cuts

Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Obama Asks Congress to Avoid 'Brutal' Spending Cuts Feb 19th 2013, 19:29 President Barack Obama has issued another appeal to Congress to work with him to avert the first stage of mandatory automatic cuts to domestic and defense spending scheduled to take effect March 1. ​​The $85 billion in cuts that could begin next week are the first part of $1.2 trillion in reductions President Obama and lawmakers agreed on two years ago to force budget savings amid partisan gridlock in Washington. Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the mandatory cuts proposed by ... Media files: 16B9A115-89CE-4A27-B711-953810D1692E_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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