Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2014

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For Immediate Release April 10, 2013 Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2014

By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (the "Act"), as amended, 2 U.S.C. 901a, I hereby order that, on October 1, 2013, direct spending budgetary resources for fiscal year 2014 in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget in its report to the Congress of April 10, 2013.

All sequestrations shall be made in strict accordance with the requirements of section 251A of the Act and the specifications of the Office of Management and Budget's report of April 10, 2013, prepared pursuant to section 251A(11) of the Act.

BARACK OBAMA

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Coburn: Failure to cut spending will be worse than sequestration

Deep cuts to the federal government will almost certainly take effect at the end of the week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Sunday, and that's not such a bad thing.

“Sequestration is a terrible way to cut spending – I don't disagree with that – but to not cut 2 and 1/2 percent out of the total budget over a year when it's twice the size it was 10 years ago? Give me a break,” Coburn, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “There's easy ways to cut this money in ways the American people will never feel. What you hear is an outrage because nobody wants to cut spending."

Coburn said the sequester cuts were preferable to the harm from not addressing the nation’s spending problems.

“It will be somewhat painful, but not cutting spending is going to be disastrous for our country,” he said.

Democrats and Republicans have been swapping blame for the pending cuts as the March 1 deadline looms without any sign of a deal to avert sequestration. Senate Democrats are expected to introduce legislation this week that would replace the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts over the next 10 years with a mix of cuts and tax hikes, but the Republican-controlled House has already rejected President Obama's calls for new tax revenues to offset some cuts.

The White House has sought to pressure Republicans by warning of the real-world effects of the sequester cuts.

The administration has said the cuts force teachers to be laid off and hurt the military's preparedness as well as force delays for air travelers.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), appearing on the same program, agreed that the cuts are likely to kick in, but said the fault lay with congressional Republicans.

“Unless the Republicans are willing to compromise, and do a balanced approach, I think it will kick in,” she said.

Coburn, who unlike McCaskill voted against the sequester proposal and the debt-ceiling increase last year, said the cuts in the coming year would be prorated and only add up to a little more than $40 billion. He said the federal government had the flexibility to deal with the cuts.

McCaskill, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, disagreed. The Pentagon has warned it will have to furlough 800,000 employees in the coming year if sequestration isn't avoided.

“There's no question that these cuts are going to be painful, and they are thoughtless,” she said. The deputy Defense secretary, she said, has warned that “even if we did some kind of flexibility move at the 11th hour, it's too little too late.”

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Sens. Graham, Paul split over harm from sequestration cuts

GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C) and Rand Paul (Ky.) on Sunday highlighted the split within the Republican party on the effect of the looming $85 billion in sequester spending cuts slated to take effect on March 1. 

In interviews on "Fox News Sunday" Defense hawk Graham said the cuts would devastate the military, while Tea Party conservative Paul argued that the sequester is not really a cut at all in government spending.

Graham said President Obama was shirking his duty as commander in chief by allowing the cuts to come into effect.

"On his watch we are going to unravel the greatest military in the world,” he said. “Iran is watching us...we are allowing people to be slaughtered in Syria.”

Graham said that the Senate Democratic proposal to replace the sequester with more tailored defense cuts, farm program cuts and tax increases was laughable. 

“Let's put Obamacare on the table,” he proposed.

Paul, however, was far more comfortable with allowing sequestration.

He said that while the across-the-board nature of the cuts is not ideal, the cuts are needed. 

“Ideally we would have done the right thing and passed appropriation bills... the sequester is sort of a hammer,” said Paul. 

But he added that the sequester and 8 years of similar cuts slated to take effect still leave spending on an upward path. 

“The sequester is really a reduction in the rate of growth of spending, it is not a real cut in spending,” he said. “Even with the sequester, spending will still rise overall.”

Paul denounced Obama for listing new programs in his State of the Union address. and proposing to pay for them with tax increases. He added that attempts by Obama to paint the GOP as the party of protecting tax breaks for the wealthy were false.

“It is our job to explain to the public big government doesn't help the poor,” he said. “His massive debt causes prices to rise.”

Paul also told "Fox News Sunday" that he would only run for president in 2016 if he can win and that he will not decide on a possible bid until next year. 

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