Sequester Backpeddle: DHS re-evaluates furloughs, overtime cuts

[The Straight Story]

Homeland Security latest agency to soft sequester impact after raising alarm
UPDATED 23:11 PM EDT, April 1, 2013 | ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department says it's re-evaluating plans to furlough border agents and cut overtime because of the automatic federal government spending cuts.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday the agency will postpone previously announced plans to furlough border patrol agents and officers for at least 14 days.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has previously said the forced budget cuts would mean the equivalent of losing about 5,000 border patrol agents.

http://www.washingtonguardian.com/sequester-backpeddle-dhs-re-evaluates-furloughs-overtime-cuts

[ananda]

1. BackPEDAL

nt

[mercymechap]

2. The Guardian? Isn't that a right-wing

rag? And 14 day delay hardly seems like a backpedal/backpaddle. They don't even know to use the right word, there is no such thing as backpeddle!

[The Straight Story]

3. Not sure if they are - but notice the little AP thing?

Alicia A. Caldwell- reports for the AP so regardless of who reposted it on what site doesn't really matter (and I generally don't take time to do investigative work on websites, especially when the article is multiple places)

And while a 14 day delay does not seem much...it will change, which I think is what the point was. You cry pit bull. Then wolf. Then puppy. And eventually the only thing we find was some politician's imagination.

[mercymechap]

4. Whether or not Alicia A. Caldwell is right-wing may

be a mystery, but she sure is spewing the same thing Republican/conservatives are. And, yes, it is going to change, but not the way you claim, it is probably going to get much worse. I'm sure it's not some politician's imagination for the people that are already feeling it.


Claims that the sequester only cuts 2.4 percent (or 3 percent) of the federal budget ignore that the sequester does not apply to the entirety of the federal budget. Rather, it mostly targets discretionary defense spending and domestic spending. Those programs will see budget reductions more than two to three times higher than the amount claimed by the Public Notice ad and some Republicans.
– Robert Farley
http://factcheck.org/2013/03/underselling-the-sequester-cuts/


While the sequester debate continues in Washington, communities in parts of the country are already feeling the automatic budget reductions. Cathy Lewis of WHRO reports from Southeastern Virginia on how furloughs and cutbacks could affect the backbone of the local economy.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june13/sequester_03-28.html