Image #: 21414789 Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) leaves after speaking about sequestration at a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 28, 2013 in Washington, D.C. If Congress fails to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Americans are not especially worried about the mandatory federal spending cuts set to begin March 1, widely cited polling by Pew ...

Have you heard about the sequester? It's coming up very soon, and it's going to be bad. Unless it isn't! No one is really sure yet, but it's definitely someone's fault for not doing something about it ...

Senate Republicans have offered legislation crafted by Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) as their alternative to the sequester due to take effect Friday. {mosads}Some Republicans ...

Standing in front of dozens of uniformed first responders, President Obama on Tuesday warned Congress that “hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs if a March 1 sequester is allowed to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are sounding the alarm: The budget sequester is coming and we have to do everything to stop it. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says it will be devastating ...

The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans to enact savage cuts to federal spending without having to ever specify them. There’s a certain type of newbie to politics who doesn’t get ...

An unwelcome sequel is scheduled for January release and it’s titled Sequester: Part 2. It is increasingly likely that this second round of indiscriminate cuts will reprise the first sequester, with ...

The White House needs you to panic over the sequester. It released detailed reports on how the automatic spending cuts hitting Friday will impact each of the 50 states Sunday night. And Monday ...