President Obama and congressional leaders will meet Friday at the White House to discuss potential avenues for avoiding automatic across-the-board budget cuts under sequestration, ABC News reports. The top four Republican and
MoreThe National Institutes of Health would have to cut $1.6 billion from its budget for fiscal year 2013 under the automatic sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Friday, USA Today reports. Dan
MoreSen. Tom Coburn has asked Jeff Zients, deputy director of management at the Office of Budget and Management, to re-direct money from 10 jobs to other positions as a way to handle
MoreTens of thousands of jobs in Maryland and Virginia are at stake as a result of $85 billion in automatic budget cuts under sequestration, the states’ respective governors said in an interview
MoreFrank Kendall, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics issued a memo on February 21 allowing Defense Department program managers to discuss the potential impact of sequestration on acquisition
MoreThe Small Business Administration and the Smithsonian Institution project they will not need to furlough workers in the event of sequestration cuts taking effect, GovExec reports. Eric Katz writes those agencies instead
MoreAll federal agencies are eyeing a March 1 deadline, when automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration are set to kick in. Barring a deal on Capitol Hill, nearly $85 billion will
MoreThe White House is still working out the specifics on how many non-Defense Department civilian employees will be furloughed if automatic cuts under sequestration take effect Friday, Federal News Radio reports. Danny
MoreDefense Department Comptroller Robert Hale believes the Pentagon is more likely to not award contract options or award new contracts if sequestration takes effect March 1. The Pentagon plans to continue making
MoreThe Government Accountability Office will not need to furlough its employees to manage automatic cuts under sequestration scheduled to take effect March 1, the agency’s chief says in a memo obtained by
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