On the recordFebruary 27, 2013
Instead, sequestration will arbitrarily take 85 billion dollars out our economy, lower our GDP, cost jobs, and harm our economic recovery and global competiveness.
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Prediction of economic damage due to sequestration's funding cuts.
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