March 17, 2014

WHITE HOUSE MISSES SEQUESTRATION REPORT DEADLINE

By ExchangeMonitor

The White House missed a deadline late last week for a report detailing the specific impacts on various government programs of sequestration, which is set to cut $109 billion from government programs on January 2 if a deal is not reached by Congress. The report was due 30 days after President Obama signed the Sequestration Transparency Act on Aug. 7. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters last week that he report will be delivered late because of “time needed to address the complex issues involved in preparing the report.”

Republicans in Congress were quick to criticize the Administration for missing the deadline. "The President’s continued silence on sequestration is disappointing. I can only conclude that President Obama wants to impose cuts his own Secretary of Defense has called catastrophic,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) said in a statement. “His administration proposed the sequester trigger in the first place and he is on record subordinating this crisis to his own political prospects. What other reason could he have for delaying a report that makes the consequences of sequestration as clear as possible.”

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