spending cut
- n the act of reducing spending
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- Whatever happened to the great 'sequester' smackdown?
After a busy lunch hour, waitress Missy Tirrell stops to talk about how federal spending cuts might affect Mo's, a burger joint that counts on sailors and government contractors for its business.
July 3, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Sequestration Is Eating Up 15 Percent of Some Unemployment Benefits
Critics of government spending have long complained that the sequester fears were overblown: The across-the-board spending cuts were not and will not be apocalyptic. And, in a lot of ways, they were right. Half of the doomsday predictions that The Washington Post looked at this week never happened, the paper reported. But that doesn't mean the sequester was a big dud.Some 680,000 of the Defense ...
July 2, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News - French energy minister fired for speaking out of turn
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande fired his energy and environment minister Delphine Batho on Tuesday for publicly criticizing cuts to her budget. Hollande, whose poll ratings are slumping amid spiraling unemployment and moribund growth, appears increasingly determined to assert his authority over the government while pushing through spending cuts to trim the budget deficit ...
July 2, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News