Obama Accepting Sequestration as Deficit Shrinks
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President Barack Obama has stopped worrying and learned to live with sequestration.
Gone are the cold February predictions of mass layoffs, family upheaval and the prospect of a new recession because of the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts. Cabinet secretaries no longer visit the White House briefing room to offer dire forecasts about teacher firings or unsecured borders.