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Matt Cartwright: “The Administration did not decide to impose across-the-board cuts to spending at Government agencies. It was Congress…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2013
The Administration did not decide to impose across-the-board cuts to spending at Government agencies. It was Congress that did that, using Congress' power of the purse.
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Matt Cartwright
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Cartwright emphasizes Congress's responsibility for spending cuts, not the Administration's.

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