The most recent call was on Friday, the day the automatic budget cuts began.
The sparring today set the stage for yet another political showdown and perhaps automatic budget cuts.
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Automatic budget cuts that went into effect in March have caused federal agencies to cut back on travel.
That will lead to a Supercommittee stalemate, which will then lead to automatic budget savings known as sequestration.
The automatic budget cuts could s hut down the whole meat industry as inspectors have to take days off work.
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Dubbed the "snowquester, " the storm closed federal government offices, just as the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester were expected to do.
Republicans are considering a surrender on taxes because they are afraid that a deadlock will lead to a sequester, which would mean automatic budget savings.
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The cancellations caused by automatic budget cuts known as sequestration sent ripples through the industry, because the jet teams anchor most shows in which they perform.
And yet, less than one week from now, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts that will do the exact opposite.
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Obama and the Republicans have kept hurling accusations of bad faith at one another until the automatic budget cuts that both sides once deemed unthinkable loomed.
That means automatic budget cuts designed to inflict maximum pain.
The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automatic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefit programs like Medicare.
On Friday, a series of broad automatic budget cuts known in Washington DC as the sequester are expected to take effect, hitting many areas of the federal government if Congress does not act.
Unfortunately, in just four days, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts to kick in that will slow our economy, eliminate good jobs, and leave a lot of folks who are already pretty thinly stretched scrambling to figure out what to do.
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The US defence department says it has begun laying off most of its 46, 000 temporary employees, as automatic defence budget cuts loom in March.
Yet the Obama budget eliminates the recent automatic cuts to the Pentagon budget, even as it cuts Social Security and increases Medicare premiums for middle-class seniors.
The move is the result of those automatic cuts to the budget due to sequestration.
They believe that if the eurozone signs up to debt limits, to budget discipline through automatic sanctions, to budgetary convergence etc then that could pave the way for the ECB "to play its full role", as the French finance minister said at the weekend.
During his tenure, he has struggled against automatic spending cuts to the defence budget totalling billions of dollars, a process he frequently likened to a meat cleaver.
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Congress has another 13 months to come up with a budget plan to avert the automatic cuts.
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If lawmakers face automatic spending reductions for not reaching a budget deal, they just delay the cuts.
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He expressed his opposition to the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts that will hit the Pentagon on March 1 if Congress fails to come up with an alternative.
Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts on January 2, 2013 as stipulated in the Budget Control Act of 2011 will impact all government programs with few exceptions, such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
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Second, spending cuts should be guaranteed by budget controls with teeth in the form of an agreement that would implement automatic, across-the-board cuts if Congress fails to enact a responsible budget.
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If there is no deal on the long-term budget, the EU's 2013 budget will roll over into 2014 with an automatic 2% rise based on inflation - still more than Mr Cameron wants.
In short, the fiscal cliff means an automatic end to the tax cuts put in place under George W., and automatic across-the-board cuts to the government budget, as promised in the August 2011 debt ceiling compromise.
The government announced in this year's Budget that it wanted to create a new, automatic mechanism for future increases in the pension age, based on regular, independent reviews.
As for the rest of this year under the debt limit deal, the Super Committee and Congress could actually meet the requirements to avoid the cuts of the automatic sequestration trigger without a tax increase by adopting the Ryan budget.
Over 1, 000 government programs, including the defense budget and Medicare, are in line for deep, automatic cuts that begin to bite in January.
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