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The rustic, 316-room Cheyenne Mountain Resort hotel in Colorado Springs is usually booked solid this time of year, just days before a major national space conference rolls into town.
The White House announced that it is cancelling public visitor tours as a result of the $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester.
Even with the news of the sequester taking most of the headlines on Capitol Hill these days, immigration reform is still a hot topic and one prominent senator addressed how a new bill would not allow violent offenders to become U.S. citizens.
As sequestration officially begins, after President Obama was unable to convince Republicans to authorize more tax increases on wealthy Americans, the implementation and effect of the spending cuts is still murky.
President Obama expressed his frustration with the US Congress for not doing more to prevent the $85 billion in spending cuts, known as the sequester, from moving passed its deadline of March 1.
As across-the-board spending cuts were to take effect for the U.S. government, bureaucrats on Friday were still trying to figure out how much wiggle room they have to limit the damage.
The sequester deadline is today and unless President Obama and Republican leaders can strike a last minute deal the $85 billion of across the board cuts will go into effect. But what program budgets are actually getting snipped and by how much?
The sequester deadline looms on Friday, and two competing plans to avert the crisis are doomed to failure even before they are finalized.
Bob Woodward, the iconic Washington Post reporter best known for uncovering the Watergate scandal that forced President Nixon to resign, says White House officials were threatening him to not write an article about the impending sequester.
Last night Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison had a heat exchanged on Fox News' host Sean Hannity on his show. During a segment on the sequester, Sean Hannity blamed the looming sequester on President Obama.
With the sequester deadline only four days away, President Obama will be visiting Virginia on Tuesday to pressure Republicans to strike a compromise that would prevent the automatic $85 billion cut in federal spending that White House officials say will have severe consequences to everyday Americans.
As Congress deals with the looming sequester, there are already some red flags popping up in terms of problems that Congress could be dealing with regarding passing a bill that would reform the nation's immigration laws.
