Ashton Carter actually said...

the mechanism of sequester which makes us cut everything in proportion is dumb from any kind of managerial point of view.

We need to detrigger sequestration.

What I would like us to do is spend the time trying to make sure that we stop this thing that just about everybody agrees is bad policy from...

We know how much is going to be cut; roughly, we know what it is going to be cut from.