Abolish the Sequester
4:50 AM, Sep 14, 2017 | By The Editors
You may remember the grim warnings of draconian budgets cuts issued by liberal pundits, congressional Democrats, and the Obama administration in early 2013. That was just before “sequester” took effect—a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which ordered automatic, across-the-board budget cuts if Congress couldn’t agree to more tailored ones to bring the deficit under control. Border patrol agents would be given the pink slip, we were told. Air traffic control towers would go unmanned. President Obama surrounded himself with firefighters and claimed the sequestration would cost the jobs of “first responders” around the country.
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