Federal Insider: Legislative branch prepares workers for cuts

- February 25, 2013

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With AFP Story by Michael MATHES: US-politics-economy-budget (FILES): This February 1, 2010 file photo shows the Capitol Dome silhouetted against the rising sun in Washington, DC. The question facing Americans is no longer when or whether the budget axe will fall, but how hard. And in the US capital region, the impact of looming spending cuts will be deepest of all. Warnings were mounting over the impact of the $85 billion automatic 'sequester' spending reductions mandated to start March 1, 2013 if warring politicians don't strike a more modest deficit reduction deal before then. AFP PHOTO / Files / Jewel SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

Legislative branch prepares workers for cuts

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FILE – In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama talks about sequestration in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington, accompanied on stage by emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. Lawmakers and the president on the brink of yet another compromise-or-else deadline Friday, March 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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