There are concerns about any further cuts in the discretionary budget.
If you cut the civilian workforce within the Department of Defense, you are cutting defense.
No one really wants to cut defense by this amount.
The President has made numerous proposals to stop sequestration.
Cuts to civilian workforce are more than one dollar.
Sequestration has failed to motivate Congress to adopt sound fiscal policy.
Sequestration will be damaging to national security.
Sequestration must be prevented.
I agree with Secretary Panetta's description of sequestration as a 'disaster in terms of the Defense Department.'
It is clear that, so far, sequestration has failed to motivate Congress to adopt sound fiscal policy.
It is clear that large, indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts to the Federal budget would have serious implications for national security, o...