Post-Sequester Challenge for POTUS, Congress: Prevent a Government Shut-Down
Congress returned to Washington this week with few expectations that the across-the-board sequester-- canceling $85 billion in funding across the Federal Government for the seven months that remain in Fiscal Year 2013--will be imminently undone. The President’s order was mandated as part of the Budget Control Act of August 2011.
This week, House Republicans approved a six-month stop-gap spending bill—a continuing resolution or CR—to keep the government funded past March 27 and shift billions of dollars to military operations to help the Army and Navy cope with cuts ordered by the sequester. The bill now goes to the Senate where a bipartisan coalition hopes to extend the same relief to other federal agencies such as the Departments of Education, Labor, HHS, Justice and HUD.
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Also in this issue of the Urban Policy Alert (03.07.13):
- SCOTUS Takes Up Voting Rights in Shelby Cty. Alabama v. Holder
- WH & Congress Work to Avert Gov’t Shut-Down After Sequestration
- More GOP Governors Sign on to Medicaid Expansion
- Jobs Report Shows Continued Signs of Recovery
- How Sequestration Impacts Urban League Programs and Communities
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