Automatic Budget Cuts Now Spook Some Key Republicans (Obama to be scapegoated)... [View all]

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Source: SEATTLE TIMES

Rep. John Boehner, once "pretty happy" with the cuts, now calls them a threat.
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WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders are backing away from a trigger system of forced spending cuts that they hailed 13 months ago as a herald of fiscal discipline and for which GOP lawmakers voted by large margins.

With the forced cuts — called sequestration on Capitol Hill — scheduled by law to take effect Jan. 2 and no deal in sight to replace them, the Republicans say the reductions could harm the military, and they're blaming President Obama.

Obama, in turn, is accusing the Republicans of flip-flopping by rejecting the strong budget controls they once championed...

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