Sequestration Could Jack Up the Price of Meat
The sequester had Washington, D.C on edge last week, with likely cuts threatening to put countless federal employees out of work. That includes a large majority concentrated in the D.C. area. While the...
View ArticleSequestration Could Put Nearly One Million Defense Employees on Furlough
If you're a civilian employee working for the Defense Department, you've been put on notice. The sequester is very real and it's extremely likely you are going to feel the effects of it soon. About...
View ArticleThe Problem With Saying Everyone Is The Problem
Some of the coverage of the sequestration has been characterized as a "pox on both their houses" attitude towards the Democrats and Republicans who are, once again, inching us closer to the edge....
View ArticleThe Latest Federal Budget Crisis, Predicting the Oscars, and More
Why federal budget crises seem to happen every month, covering the Vatican from a world away, and using election prediction models to forecast the winners of the 85th Academy Awards.
View ArticleSlate: The Sequestering Obama's Golf Game Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Austerity approaches, SCOTUS considers campaign contributions and the president putts in private.
View ArticleJon Meacham on Sequester Season
The President and Congress are locked in a debate over the effects of the so-called "sequester," with Obama warning of dire consequences and Republicans more and more comfortable with the idea of the...
View ArticleAutomatic Federal Cuts Would Hit Sandy Aid
The cuts in federal spending called for by the debt ceiling deal between the Republican-controlled Congress and President Obama in 2011 are set to take effect Friday and without some last minute...
View ArticleHoboken Mayor; They Might Be Giants; Oscars Recap
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer talks about how to protect the city from future disasters similar to Superstorm Sandy. Plus: Steven Dennis from Roll Call on the latest from Washington; They Might Be Giants...
View ArticleSequester Cuts Would Mean Millions Lost in Education Funds
New York and New Jersey stand to lose millions in education funds if sequester cuts go into effect on March 1, and already-strapped school districts will be left to trim their budgets for the 2013-2014...
View ArticleSequester Meets Sandy
WNYC's Bob Hennelly discusses how the automatic spending sequester cuts will affect local services, including some of the money slated for Sandy relief.As @bobhwnyc points out, sequester isn't a...
View ArticleSequester Cuts Felt in American Classrooms
Those automatic spending cuts, known in Washington and beyond as the "sequester," just won't go away. And unless Congress stops it from happening, the "sequester" will kick in this Friday.Factory...
View ArticleToday's Takeaway | February 28, 2013
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View ArticleLive Chat: Explaining the Looming Sequester
Sequestration is pretty simple on the surface — it's basically a set of scheduled budget cuts — but the details behind it, and the potential effects, are complicated. In an effort to shed some light on...
View ArticleStock Market Rises as Sequester Looms
A month ago, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 for the first time since 2007, and it has continued to hover around that mark. At the same time, the economy is limping along, and the...
View ArticleSequester; Poverty in New York; LIPA; Solo Twin
Slate's Fred Kaplan discusses why the sequester is worse for the military than you might think. Plus: Whether LIPA should be public or private; Verizon coverage post-Sandy; poverty and the Mayor's...
View ArticleWashington Braces for Sequestration
Today's deadline for a deal on the sequester is expected to come and go without an agreement between Congress and President Obama. Tensions are high, with House Speaker John Boehner calling on Senate...
View ArticleSequester Hits
Fred Kaplan, War Stories columnist for Slate and author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, talks about the sequester's dramatic impact on the military.
View ArticleAre Manufactured Crises the New Norm?
First the fiscal cliff, and now the sequester. Manufactured crises are becoming commonplace in Washington, while voices outside the capital are calling for compromise and an end to the gridlock. Should...
View ArticleThe Great Sequester and Basketball Diplomacy
The sequester — $85 billion in across the board spending cuts — has begun. In this week's Washington Report, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks to Kerry Nolan...
View ArticleLow-Income Mayoral Concerns; HIV Cure?; Threat to O.J.
Washington’s budget woes continue. A.B. Stoddard of The Hill talks about the latest in national politics. Then, Westchester Country Executive Rob Astorino on how to stop gun violence. Plus: a new study...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics: The Post-Sequester World
A.B. Stoddard, associate editor of The Hill, talks about the latest sequester news and other national politics.
View ArticleSlate: The Screw You, Let's Have Lunch Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and special guest Dave Weigel. This week: The Obama schmooze, the Paul filibuster and the Menendez prostitution scandal.
View ArticleAs Snow Falls, Are Relations in DC Thawing?
Glenn Thrush, senior White House reporter for Politico, talks about this week's news from the Beltway, from Senator Rand Paul's stand on drones, to the sequester a week in, and Obama reaching out to...
View ArticleGabfest Radio: The Old-School Filibuster Edition
On this week’s episode of Gabfest Radio from Slate and WNYC, Political Gabfest panelists John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Dave Weigel discuss President Obama’s renewed efforts to schmooze...
View ArticleCongress and the Budget
Elizabeth Williamson, Wall Street Journal reporter based in Washington, reviews political news in D.C.— from the ongoing effects of the sequester cuts to the budget proposals from Paul Ryan.
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Object Lesson: How Sequestration Could Affect Small Airports
Chocks Away- business jet traffic at Kissimmee Gateway Airport could suffer if the control tower closes (photo by Matthew Peddie)Budget cuts brought about by sequestration could force the closure of...
View ArticleDespite Sequester, Feds Award Grants to Prevent Domestic Abuse Homicides
In an era when the Violence Against Women Act has proven to be hugely divisive, and budgets are being slashed because of the sequester, the Department of Justice has awarded millions in grant money to...
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FAA to Close 149 Air Traffic Control Towers (LIST)
Forced to trim $637 million from its budget, the FAA is closing 149 air traffic control facilities around the country.The closures will start taking place early next month and will take four weeks to...
View ArticleAirports and Medicare Patients Impacted As Sequestration Cuts Take Hold
Not long ago President Obama warned of the potentially devastating and deeply destructive consequences of allowing the federal government cuts known as sequestration go into effect. When he signed that...
View ArticleSlate: The "Whoops, Did I Really Just Hand the 2000 Election to Bush?" Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Gitmo gets a hunger strike, the FAA gets a furlough fix and Justice O'Connor gets regretful.
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'A Generation of Untrained Scientists' After $1.6 Billion in Cuts to...
New York and New Jersey are losing close to $114 million in biomedical research funding from the federal government, caused by across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration. Nationwide $1.6...
View ArticleObamacare Rollout; Sequester Cuts; Amsterdam Bikes
Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post checks in on the progress of the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act, and what the policy will mean for women. Plus: a look at what the sequester cuts means for...
View ArticleThe Sequester's Real: Biomed
The automatic spending cuts are starting to be felt in a variety of areas that receive government funding. Sarah Gonzalez, New Jersey Public Radio reporter, discusses her reporting on how the sequester...
View ArticleThe Sequester's Real: Head Start
Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, director of the Office of Head Start, explains how sequestration cuts are affecting the program and the children enrolled in it.→ Reading List: FAQ on Sequester Impact | Roundup...
View ArticleWill the U.S. government allow more surveillance oversight? Drone use in...
Host Kerry Nolan talks with New York Times Chief Washington correspondent David Sangerabout President Obama's plan to provide greater oversight when it comes to government surveillance programs; we...
View ArticleSyria Debate Hits Budget Negotiations
The debate in Congress this week over whether to give President Obama authorization to take military action in Syria crowded out talk of economic issues like funding the government, raising the debt...
View ArticleLessons from the Sequester and the Shutdown
At a press conference this week, President Barack Obama imagined the possibility of a government default in personal terms."Imagine, in your private life, if you decided that I'm not going to pay my...
View ArticleAs Hours Wane, Can Congress Get Productive?
The holiday season can be a busy time of year for many Americans who spend their vacations visiting family, cooking massive meals, or scouring magazine inserts for the best deals for presents.But one...
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