Cardin pledges to press for sequestration alternative in town hall meetings
Source: Baltimore Sun
Sen. Ben Cardin lamented snowballing damage from federal budget cuts in town hall meetings with federal workers and small-business leaders Friday, pledging to work toward an alternative budget solution by October.
But he acknowledged that achieving a compromise between similar budget proposals from the Senate and President Barack Obama and another from the House of Representatives could be a challenge. He spoke to two dozen Howard County business owners and more than 50 employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
"I wouldn't trade our system with any other system in the world, but it doesn't look good now," Cardin told the NASA employees.
The meetings were dedicated to sequestration, the automatic federal budget cuts that took effect March 1 to slash spending by as much as 10 percent. Unless Congress acts, sequestration requires $42.7 billion in cuts to defense programs and another $42.7 billion in cuts to nondefense programs over the next year.
At NASA, Cardin drew applause for emphasizing a need to stand behind federal workers, many of whom are facing furloughs.
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Furloughs for Federal workers yet we still give millions to regimes outside of this country!