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All condemn pending budget cuts, spread blame
The Associated PressThe White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who’s to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week’s end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state and...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Unemployment, Executive Branch, Government Debt, John McCain
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Governors: Looming cuts threaten economic gains
WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors are becoming prominent voices in the fight to cut the federal deficit, warning that Capitol Hill's latest budget stalemate is causing fresh uncertainty that threatens economic progress. State leaders attending the...
Tags: Health Insurance, Democratic Governors Association, U.S. Congress, Public Finance, Washington, DC
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NATO considering a proposal to continue funding of security force
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is strongly considering a proposal to continue funding a security force of 352,000 Afghan troops through 2018, as part of an effort to maintain security and help convince Afghanistan that America and its allies will not...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Afghanistan, Brookings Institution, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense
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Sequestration would mean massive loss of jobs at depot
waynesboro@herald-mail.comLetterkenny Army Depot stands to be one of the biggest losers if the federal sequestration cuts take place as scheduled in one week. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the depot would absorb spending reductions of more than $449 million....Tags: Government Health Care, U.S. Congress, Public Finance, Patrick J. Toomey, Armed Forces
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Panetta, NATO partner, differ on troop numbers
BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his German counterpart offered conflicting accounts Friday of a discussion about how many U.S. and European forces would remain in Afghanistan after the anticipated end of combat after 2014....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Spending cuts could impact SD Guard's full-time workforce
RAPID CITY, S.D. - The South Dakota National Guard may be forced to furlough 548 full-time personnel throughout the state for 22 days if automatic federal spending cuts take effect March 1. More than half of the SDNG’s 918 full-time employees would...
Tags: Employees, U.S. Congress, Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Army
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Gov't downsizes amid GOP demands for more cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they've already gotten much of both. Spending by federal, state and local...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Defense, John Boehner, Unemployment
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Head Start, Health Care Reform (2009), U.S. Department of Defense, John Boehner
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Annapolis, U.S. Air Force, Justice System, U.S. Department of Defense, Georgetown
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Conflict in Syria causing discord
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta...Tags: Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, David Petraeus, White House
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Pentagon furloughs coming soon in U.S. government budget fight?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Employees, U.S. Congress, Public Finance, U.S. Department of Defense
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Federal cuts would hit 1,000 Ind. Guard members
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Nearly 1,000 Indiana National Guard members would face temporary furloughs if automatic federal spending cuts take effect next month. Unless Congress heads off the cuts set for March 1, The Journal Gazette reports (http://...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing
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