Voice of America: US Days Away from Austerity on Autopilot

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

US Days Away from Austerity on Autopilot Feb 24th 2013, 21:36 The United States is days away from automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts that would impact everything from national security to air traffic controllers to food inspection.  Republicans and Democrats are criticizing the budget sequester, but they show no sign of forging a bipartisan deal to avert it. Unless Congress acts, $85 billion will be trimmed from U.S. military and domestic spending this year, the first installment of $1.2 trillion of cuts over a 10-year period. "I ... Media files: 84F31182-47B9-4A5F-9288-E8A5A4452727_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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