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Across-the-board spending cuts, called sequestration, are now in effect. Sequestration will cut domestic spending on things like education, national parks, air traffic control, and consumer safety protections by about 5 percent and most defense spending by 7.8 percent, according to OMB estimates (many entitlements, including Social Security and Medicaid, will be exempt).

This webpage is devoted to tracking both projected and actual impacts on affected federal programs. It includes original reports and analysis from the Center for Effective Government, as well as links to reports in the media and selected organizations.

What's New?

Think Progress: How Sequestration Gets Even Worse Next Year (10/28/13)
New York Times: After Year of Working Around Federal Cuts, Agencies Face Fewer Options (10/26/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts Lead To Bigger Classes, Shuttered Arts Programs In Schools (10/22/13)
Washington Post: Report offers fresh evidence of sequestration’s toll on D.C. area job market (10/21/13)
The Hill: Sanders vows to end ‘absurdity’ of sequestration in budget conference (10/18/13)
Think Progress: How Republicans Came To Own Sequestration’s Devastating Cuts As A Victory (10/15/13)
Huffington Post: How Sequestration And The Shutdown Dealt A Body Blow To Scientists (10/14/13)
Huffington Post: Government Shutdown Negotiations Stuck On Sequestration (10/12/13)
Bloomberg: Foreclosures Surge in D.C. Area After Federal Budget Cuts (10/10/13)
Financial Times: Sequestration nation: Cut to the core (10/2/13)
New York Times: ‘We’ve already essentially adopted that Ryan budget’ (10/2/13)
Government Executive: Sequester, U.S.A. (10/1/13)
New York Times: Remember Sequestration? (1/1/13)
Financial Times: Sequestration: How is your county affected? (9/29/13)
"Voices from the Field: FBI Agent Accounts of the Real Consequences of Budget Cuts" (9/13)
Federal Times: Budget cuts hurting oversight, IGs say (9/17/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Forces Air Force To Limit Free Flu Shots (9/13/12)
New York Times: F.B.I. Plans to Close Offices for 10 Days to Cut Costs (9/12/13)
Center for American Progress: The Dirty Truth About Boehner’s ‘Clean’ Continuing Resolution (9/10/13)
The Nation: The Hidden Rot: We Don't Fully Understand the Consequences of Budget Cuts (9/9/13)
Think Progress: Top Republican Threatens To Hold Syria Resolution Hostage Unless Obama Caves To GOP On Sequester (9/8/13)
The New York Times: Nevada’s Jobless Feel the Sequester (9/5/13)
The New York Times: Budget Battles Keep Agencies Guessing (9/3/13)
Think Progress: Consumer Spending Slumps And Wages Fall Because Of Sequestration (8/30/13)
Think Progress: Sequestration Nation: Back To School With Budget Cuts (8/27/13)
Los Angeles Times: CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials (8/21/13)
Think Progress: In Vermont, 2,000 People Will Become Homeless Because Of Sequestration (8/20/13)
Washington Post: Unemployment rates rise in D.C., Md. and Va. (8/19/13)
New York Times: U.S. Workers Are Grounded by Deep Cuts (8/18/13)
Washington Post: George Will: The sequester’s a public health hazard (8/16/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Ushers In A Dark Age For Science In America (8/14/13)
New York Times: More on Sequestration’s Effects on the Private Sector (8/8/13)
Economic Policy Institute: Repealing Sequestration Would Create 900,000 New Jobs in a Year (8/8/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Forces Federal Agency To Turn Thermostat Up To 80 Degrees (8/8/13)
Huffington Post: John McCain On Sequestration: 'The Worst Vote I Have Cast In Many Years' (7/31/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts: More Americans Say Budget Issues Have Hurt Them, NBC News/WSJ Poll Reveals (7/28/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Will Prevent Creation Of Up To 1.6 Million Jobs In Next Year, CBO Concludes (7/25/13)
MSNBC: The sequester isn’t hurting you? Think again (7/22/13)
Washington Post: Sequestration hits Hispanic families hard (7/21/13)
The Atlantic: The Sequester's Devastating Impact on America's Poor (7/13/13)
Center for American Progress: Mapping the Sequester (7/12/13)
ThinkProgress: Meet The People Who Lost Their Housing Thanks To Budget Cuts (7/12/13)
New York Times: Pain on the Reservation (7/12/13)
Huffington Post: Sequester Takes Devastating Toll On Low-Income Women (7/11/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Hurts Us All (7/11/13)
New York Times: Yes, the Sequester Is Affecting the Job Market (7/5/13)
Washington Post: Sequester has caused much chaos (7/5/13)
Washington Post: Tracking the Predicted Sequester Impacts (6/30/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration May Lead To Layoffs Of Capitol Janitors (6/24/13)
The Diane Rehm Show: The Impact of Sequestration (6/19/13)
Foreign Policy: A Wink and Nod Toward Sequestration (6/18/13)
National Journal: Is a Sequester Tipping Point Coming? (6/17/13)
Huffington Post: IMF Says Sequester Hurting U.S. Economy, Delaying Recovery (6/14/13)
International Monetary Fund: Ease Off Spending Cuts to Boost U.S. Recovery (6/14/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts Cause Mississippi Republicans To Complain About Impact Back Home (6/13/13)
Washington Post: Will a fight over defense spending blow up the sequester? (6/7/13)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Too Little to Go Around: House Appropriations Plan to Increase Defense and Homeland Security Requires Even Deeper Cuts in Other Programs (6/5/13)
Washington Post: How the sequester endangers America’s future by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (5/31/13)
Washington Post: More and more Americans are feeling the effects of the sequester (5/29/13)
Washington Post: Sequester not biting District yet (5/29/13)
Bloomberg: Obama Accepting Sequestration as Deficit Shrinks (5/28/13)
ABC News: Budget Cuts Get Personal; Those Who Are Hurt, Holler (5/24/13)
Washington Post: Three big federal agencies to close Friday (5/23/13)
The Hill: Here Comes Sequester: Part 2 (5/22/13)
New York Times: Budget Office Says Obama Plan Would Cut Deficit by $1 Trillion (5/17/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Fixes Counterproductive, Congressional Democrats Say (5/14/13)
Politico: Hill's newsest earmarks: Sequester exemptions (4/22/13)
Gallup: Half in U.S. Still Have No View on Effect of Sequestration (4/11/13)
Propublica: Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration (4/11/13)
New York Times: Self-Sacrifice Is All the Rage as Federal Furloughs Loom (4/4/13)
Fiscal Times: Sequester Cuts Start to Bite Outside of Washington (4/4/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Effects: Cuts Sting Communities Nationwide (4/2/13)
Washington Post: Beef with the sequester? At least one federal program was able to beat it. (3/31/13)
Washington Post: For federal workforce, the furlough terrain is uneven (3/28/13)
Maddow Blog: Republicans overcome with 'Sequestration NIMBYism' (3/27/13)
The Hill: Washington has cut spending below pre-recession level, CBO finds (3/26/13)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Sequestration By the Numbers (3/22/13)
Washington Post: Is sequestration here to stay? (3/21/13)
Talking Points Memo: Democrats Come Up Short In Sequestration Standoff (3/20/13)
Huffington Post: Workers Lose Jobs As Pink Slips Go Out Due To Sequestration (3/19/13)
Roll Call: What Sequester? Members See Little Political Fallout So Far (3/19/13)
New York Times: Finance Bill, Nearing Senate Passage, Would Protect Some Favored Programs (3/19/13)
Washington Post: Federal-worker union plans Wednesday rally in D.C. to protest sequester (3/18/13)
Federal News Radio: GAO to review agency sequestration planning, implementation (3/18/13)
Federal Times: Furlough strategies vary wildly (3/17/13)
Washington Post: The Morning Plum: No, the GOP isn’t “winning” the argument over sequester (3/13/13)
Federal Times: Agency facing ‘tidal wave’ of furlough appeals (3/7/13)
Federal Times: Retirements surge in February (3/7/13)
The Hill: House Dems back down from strongly opposing GOP spending bill (3/5/13)
Government Executive: Obama: 'We Can Manage Through' Sequester (3/4/13)
Stan Collendar: Why The Sequester Really Happened (Hint It Has Nothing To Do With The Deficit) (3/4/13)
Washington Post: How are some agencies avoiding likelihood of sequester furloughs? (2/28/13)
Reuters: Analysis: Cuts unlikely to deliver promised budget savings (2/28/13)
Federal News Radio: Before furloughs, agencies must negotiate terms with unions (2/27/13)
Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs: Eliminate the Sequester (2/25/13)

Take Action

Center for Effective Government et al: Organizational Sign-on Letter Asking Congress to Repeal Sequestration (3/5/13)
Social Security Works: Vote for HR 900 The Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013 (3/4/13)
Other 98: Dear Congress: Just Cancel the Sequester! (3/4/13)
National Collaboration for Youth: Act Today to Stop the Federal Sequester (2/27/13)
Campaign for America's Future: Disarm the Austerity Bomb. Repeal the Sequester (2/27/13)

Highlighted Analysis

Center for Effective Government: A Misleading Report Obscures Sequestration's Impact on Regulators' Budgets (8/22/13)
Coalition on Human Needs: Sequester Impact Report: March 5- September 2
Center for Effective Government: Mitigating the Impact of a Temporary Sequester (11/2/12)

Background

Washington Post: With sequestration, everyone loses. Even Republicans. (4/29/13)
National Council of Nonprofits: New Tool Launched to Document the Human Effects of Sequestration Cuts (3/6/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration Tracker: Guide to agency furloughs (3/4/13)
CEPR: Republicans Are Not Telling the Truth When They Say that Government Spending Is Out of Control (3/4/13)
National Priorities Project: Sequestration & Fiscal Cliff II: Demand a Better Budget (3/1/13)
Congressional Budget Office: Automatic Reductions in Government Spending -- aka Sequestration (2/28/13)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: The Two Sequestrations Coming Next Month (2/26/13)
Senate Budget Committee: Chairman Murray Opening Statement at the Hearing on the Impact of Federal Investments on People, Communities, and Long-Term Economic Growth (2/26/13)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Sequestration’s Impact: It’s Real (2/25/13)
National Journal: If the Sequester Happens, What's Getting the Ax? (2/24/13)
Bipartisan Policy Center: Now It’s Time for Sequester Anxiety (2/22/13)
New York Times: Answers to Questions on Capital's Top Topic (2/21/13)
About.com: How Bad is This Sequestration Thing? (2/18/13)
White House: Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Sequester Would Impact Middle Class Families, Jobs and Economic Security (2/8/13)
House Appropriations Committee Democrats: Report on Sequestration (2/13/13)
Washington Post: 10 Questions and Answers During the Sequestration Period (2/7/13)
Washington Post: Federal Agencies Prepare for Furloughs (2/5/13)

Economics

Huffington Post: Sequester Cuts Trickle Down From The Middle Class (3/30/13)
New York Times: Dispute Over a Balanced Budget Is Philosophical as Much as Fiscal (3/12/13)
Washington Post: We’ve reduced the deficit and hurt the short-term economy (3/4/13)
Los Angeles Times: Deficit reduction target reached, but no one's happy (3/4/13)
Center for Economic Policy Research: Robert Samuelson Identifies the Sequester Culprit: John Kennedy (3/4/13)
Bloomberg News: Spending Cuts Signal Austere Future for Domestic Programs (3/1/13)
Economic Policy Institute: GOP sequester position derails recovery (again) (2/28/13)
The Hill: Economy shows anemic growth last quarter (2/28/13)
Washington Post: Bernanke: The sequester could make it harder to reduce the deficit, not easier (2/27/13)
Washington Post: AFL-CIO: Time to repeal the sequester (2/27/13)
New York Times: Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom (2/26/13)
Jared Bernstein: Austerity That Would Make a European Policy Maker Proud (2/26/13)
Washington Post: Sequester will sock a vulnerable economy (2/26/13)
Economic Policy Institute: The importance of revenue revisited: Minimizing the drag of austerity (1/24/13)

Agency-specific Resources

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White House/OMB

Bloomberg Businessweek: Sequestration Squeeze Hits White House Staff With Job Furloughs (5/2/13)
Federal News Radio: OMB clarifies agency authorities for implementing sequestration cuts (4/4/13)
OMB: Ongoing Implementation of the Joint Committee Sequestration (4/4/13)
Washington Post: Obama to take pay cut to draw attention to plight of federal workers facing furloughs (4/3/13)
FCW: OMB issues furlough notices (4/2/13)
Politico: White House dumps Donald Trump tour offer (3/13/13)
Politico: Hundreds of White House budget office employees furloughed (3/12/13)
Washington Post: Budget pain reaches the federal workers who crunch the numbers (OMB) (3/5/13)
White House: What You Need to Know About the Sequester (3/5/13)
OMB: Issuance of the Sequestration Order Pursuant To Section 251A ofthe Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as Amended (3/1/13)
OMB: OMB Report to the Congress on the Joint Committee Sequestration for Fiscal Year 2013 (3/1/13)
OMB: Agency Responsibilities for Implementation of Potential Joint Committee Sequestration (2/27/13)
White House: President Obama Calls for a Responsible Approach to Deficit Reduction (2/26/13)
White House: Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Sequester Would Impact Middle Class Families, Jobs and Economic Security (2/8/13)
OMB: Planning for Uncertainty with Respect to Fiscal Year 2013 Budgetary Resources (1/14/13)
OMB: OMB Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 (394 pages, 1.4 mb) (9/14/12)

Agriculture

Salon: Congress burns firefighters — again (7/29/13)
MSNBC: Thought it was over? Worst of sequestration still to come (7/16/13)
The Colorado Observer: Obama Firefighting Cuts Could Cost Taxpayers (6/13/13)
Mother Jones: Sequester Guts Wildfire Prevention, Sets Up Bigger Blazes (5/24/13)
Community Radio for Northern Colorado: Sequester Forces Firefighting Cuts, Udall Questions Forest Service Chief (4/16/13)
The International: US Forest Service Struggles to Manage Wildfires After Sequestration (4/7/13)
Capital Press: Sequester leads USDA to cut direct payments 8.5 percent (4/3/13)
Washington Post: Beef with the sequester? At least one federal program was able to beat it. (3/31/13)
Sierra Sun Times: U.S. Department of Agriculture Asks States to Return $85 Million Due to Federal Sequestration of Secure Rural Schools Payments (3/30/13)
CV News: USDA won’t have to furlough meat inspectors (3/26/13)
Federal News Radio: USDA seeks authority to transfer funds to offset sequestration cuts (3/20/13)
Washington Post: USDA’s statistical arm halts some reports, including for milk and cattle, due to budget cuts (3/13/13)
Reuters: USDA details some furlough plans (3/13/13)
Washington Post: The sequester’s impact on hunger and school achievement (3/11/13)
Food Safety News: Vilsack: Under Sequestration, USDA Cannot Avoid Furloughing Meat Inspectors (3/4/13)
CBPP: The Impact of the Sequester on WIC (2/26/13)
Reuters: Budget cuts would close meat plants and parks, cause layoffs-USDA (2/19/13)
Whotv.com: AGRIBUSINESS: Sequestration Could Force Meat Inspector Furlough (2/8/13)
U.S. Department of Agriculture: Letter from Secretary Vilsack to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/5/13)

Commerce

Politico: NOAA still planning to furlough storm forecasters (5/21/13)
Politico: Sequester is hitting small businesses the hardest (4/16/13)
The Hill: House Small Business panel chief pushes SBA over sequester (4/3/13)
Daily Kos: National Weather Service faces sequestration, furloughs and reduced reporting capabilities (2/28/13)
Federal News Radio: SBA head: Agency will avoid major blow from cuts (2/8/13)
U.S. Department of Commerce: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/8/13)

Defense

Government Accountability Office: Sequestration: Observations on the Department of Defense’s Approach in Fiscal Year 2013 (11/7/2013)
Politico: DOD gears up for Round 2 of sequestration (10/21/13)
Defense One: Pentagon Waits Out Shutdown While Sequestration Looms (10/2/13)
The Center for Public Integrity: Sequestration nation: military communities feel nation's budget stress (9/30/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Forces Air Force To Limit Free Flu Shots (9/13/12)
USA Today: Troop, civilian cuts likely, Pentagon's No. 2 says (8/5/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration May Mean More Military Casualties, Army Chief Of Staff Says (7/29/13)
CNN: Sequester cuts keep Air Force general worried about readiness (7/17/13)
Reuters: Hagel says more budget cuts will force Pentagon layoffs (7/16/13)
Forbes: The Bottom Line On Defense Sequestration: Warfighters Will Die (7/15/13)
Center for Americna Progress: Sequestration Nation: Defense Department Furloughs Pack a Mean Punch (7/9/13)
The Wall Street Journal: America's No-Fly Zones Are Already in Place (6/23/13)
Politico: Complicated: Sequestration and Syria (6/14/13)
Bloomberg: Pentagon Releases Report on Sequestration Cuts’ Effects (6/11/13)
Federal News Radio: Tons of cocaine entering U.S. due to sequestration cuts, rear admiral says (6/6/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration slows network modernization that Navy can't wait for (6/3/13)
Washington Post: Pentagon begins notifying workers of their up to 11 furlough days (5/29/13)
American Forces Press Service: Hale: Sequestration Devastates U.S. Military Readiness (5/10/13)
Washington Post: Lawmakers seek details of possible sequester cuts to defense budget next year (5/3/13)
Politico: Air shows victim of sequestration (4/28/13)
Huffington Post: New York City Fleet Week Canceled Due to Sequestration (4/24/13)
Federal News Radio: DHS, DoD asking OMB for sequestration reprogramming authority (4/19/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration already taking toll on DoD's research and development (4/18/13)
U.S. DoD: Sequestration Center (4/1/13)
Government Executive: Sequestration Could Lead to Job Losses, Defense Comptroller Says (4/1/13)
Government Executive: Pentagon Scales Back Furloughs, Calls for Additional Flexibility (3/28/13)
U.S. DoD: Comptroller: Budget Crisis Threatens Severe Readiness Impact (3/28/13)
Government Executive: Furloughs Could Endanger Feds’ Security Clearances (3/26/13)
Federal News Radio: DoD in denial about budget future, experts say (3/25/13)
Huffington Post: States Told To Plan For Sequestration Military Cuts (3/21/13)
Federal News Radio: Pentagon to delay furlough notices for two weeks (3/21/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration forcing DoD's acquisition programs into 'damage limitation' mode (3/13/13)
Federal News Radio: DoD furloughs to begin April 26, with almost no exceptions (3/12/13)
Federal Times: Dire sequestration warnings set off debate (3/11/13)
Politico: House continuing resolution to restore $7B to military operations (3/3/13)
Slate: Sequester Insanity: Why the Pentagon budget cuts are far worse than you think (2/28/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration treadmill picking up steam across DoD (2/28/13)
Washington Post: A sequestration break for Defense? (2/27/13)
ABC News: Countdown to Sequester: Would Cuts Make U.S. a ‘Second-Rate Power’? (2/26/13)
Federal News Radio: Pentagon starts 45-day countdown to civilian furloughs (2/21/13)
Department of Defense: Message to the Department from Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta on the Preparations for Potential Sequestration on March 1 and Furlough Notifications (2/20/13)
Washington Post: Pentagon Issues Furlough Notice as ‘Sequester’ Budget Cuts Loom (2/20/13)
Federal News Radio: Clapper: Sequestration 'quite damaging' to national intelligence (2/15/13)
Department of Defense: Guard Chief: Sequestration Would Have ‘Devastating’ Effects (2/13/13)
Department of Defense: Service Chiefs Describe Sequestration Worries (2/13/13)
Washington Post: Senior Military Leaders Warn Cuts Are Dire Threat to Defense at Dangerous Time (2/12/13)
Department of Defense:: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/8/11)
Weekly Standard: Sequestration Cash Crunch Delays Carrier Deployment (2/8/13)
Congressional Research Service: Potential Effects on Defense Spending of a Year-long Continuing Resolution and the March 2013 Sequesters (2/7/13)
Washington Post: General Dynamics Blames $2 Billion Loss on Defense Cuts (1/23/13)

Education

Education Week: 'Sequester' Impact Felt on Special Education Aid (10/1/13)
Financial Times: Education cuts hit America’s poor (9/30/13)
Think Progress: Sequestration Nation: Back To School With Budget Cuts (8/27/13)
AASA The School Superindents Association: Surviving Sequester, Round one: Schools Detail Impact of Sequester Cuts (8/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Forces Indian Land, Military Base Schools To Make Drastic Cuts (5/20/13)
Think Progress: ‘We May Have To Close Schools’: Five Districts That Are Grappling With Sequestration’s Budget Cuts (5/20/13)
The Atlantic: The Worst Victims of the Education Sequester: Special-Needs Students and Poor Kids (5/18/13)
Stateline: Sequester Will Force Universities to Scale Back Scientific Research (4/3/13)
NEA: Early childhood education already feeling sequester cuts (3/28/13)
Education Week: Will Funding Flexibility for Schools Come With Sequestration Cuts? (3/22/13)
New America Foundation: Few Education Programs Spared Cuts Under Congressional Continuing Resolution (3/21/13)
National Association of State Budget Officers: Department of Education Estimates Sequester’s Impact on Largest Programs, School Districts (3/20/13)
Think Progress: Sequestration Drives Up Fees On Federal Student Loans (3/18/13)
Think Progress: Low-Income Kids Are Being Kicked Out Of Their Preschool Programs Thanks To Sequestration (3/15/13)
Washington Post: The sequester’s impact on hunger and school achievement (3/11/13)
U.S. Department of Education: Sequester Harms Education and Our Economy (3/7/13)
News 10 (ABC): Sequestration complicates college aid notices (3/6/13)
Washington Post: Sequester-related education cuts hitting schools on reservations, military bases (3/5/13)
Education Week: Is Sequestration the New Normal for Federal K-12 Aid? (3/4/13)
Education Week: Arne Duncan Stands Firm: Sequester Would Squeeze Schools (3/1/13)
Education Week: Arne Duncan on Sequester: No Choice But to Cut Title I, Special Ed. (2/27/13)
American Association of School Administrators: Impact of Sequester Cuts on the Nation's Schools (2/26/13)
Education Week: Sequestration and Education: 12 Frequently Asked Questions (2/26/13)
NPR: Educators Brace For Sequestration (2/26/13)
U.S. Department of Education: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)
Inside Higher Ed: The Return of the Sequester (2/1/13)

Energy

Politico: Sequester looms over storied energy labs (4/2/13)
Huffington Post: Hanford Nuclear Reservation Workers Hit By Sequestration Layoffs (3/21/13)
Washington Post: Fed budget cuts mean layoffs, furloughs at nation’s most contaminated nuclear site (3/18/13)
U.S. Department of Energy: Letter on Sequestration Cuts to Radioactive Sludge Cleanup Efforts (3/5/13)
Federal News Radio/AP: DOE: Budget cuts may slow nuclear waste cleanup (3/1/13)
The Hill: DOE Considers Furloughs as Part of Sequestration Plan (2/7/13)
U.S. Department of Energy: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)

EPA

Washington Post: EPA cuts projected number of furlough days (5/29/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts Mean Unemployment For Workers At Washington Nuclear Site (4/3/13)
Washington Post: First phase of EPA furloughs begins April 21 (4/3/13)
Center for Effective Government: Environmental Protections Threatened by Sequestration and Funding Cuts (3/12/13)
Washington Post: EPA warns employees of up to 13 furlough days (3/5/13)
Huffington Post: EPA Employees To Face Up To 13 Furlough Days (3/4/13)
National Journal: EPA Funding Reductions Have Kneecapped Environmental Enforcement (3/3/13)
Huffington Post Green: Budget Sequester: Environmental Effects Could Include Layoffs And Regulation Shortfalls (3/1/13)
Mother Jones: 6 Ways the Sequester Will Mess Up the Environment (2/27/13)
American Lung Association: The Sequester's Bad News for Breathers (2/27/13)
Federal News Radio: Union: EPA plans agencywide furlough days under sequestration (2/21/13)
EPA: Potential Impact of Sequestration (2/6/13)

Health and Human Services

Huffington Post: Budget Negotiations Give Scientists Hit By Sequester Reason To Hope (10/30/13)
The Daily Free Press: Sequester jeopardizes BU-assisted heart study (10/3/13)
The Oncology Report: Sebelius: Shutdown, sequester bad for medical research (9/30/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts A $4 Million Hole Into Iconic Medical Research Institution (8/21/13)
Washington Post: Head Start eliminated services to 57,000 children in U.S. as a result of sequester (8/18/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Ushers In A Dark Age For Science In America (8/14/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts To Research 'Like A Slowly Growing Cancer' (7/10/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Pushes Head Start Families To The Precipice (7/9/13)
Center for American Progress: Sequestration Nation: Cutting Off Access to Pre-K Education and Child Care (7/1/13)
Huffington Post: Harry Reid vs. Sequestration: The Majority Leader's Campaign To Save The NIH (6/21/13)
CBS News: Hillary Clinton blasts impact of sequester on research (6/14/13)
The Boston Globe: Spending cuts taking hard toll on Head Start (6/10/13)
Bloomberg: Alzheimer Research Cuts Show Folly of Sequestration (6/9/13)
Huffington Post: Sequester Slamming Shut Windows of Opportunity (6/5/13)
Huffington Post: Meals On Wheels Sequester Cuts Mean Layoffs, Waiting Lists And Canceled Food Deliveries (6/4/13)
Huffington Post: NIH Losing $1.7 Billion, 700 Research Grants Due To Sequestration (6/4/13)
NBC News: Sequestration Hurts Key Medical Research (5/28/13)
The Hill: Cancer clinics: Our cuts from sequester needed earlier remedy than FAA’s (5/28/13)
Roll Call: Sequester Withholding of FDA User Fees Irks Industry (5/17/13)
Yuma Arizona News: Sequestration plays havoc with the lives of senior citizens (4/19/13)
Washington Post: Will the sequester’s cancer cuts get fixed? (4/4/13)
Washington Post: AmeriCorps expects fewer volunteers under sequester (4/4/13)
Kansas City Star: Sequestration may mean hard times for Meals on Wheels (4/3/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Stupidity Is Genetic, Hitting Front-Line Medical Research (4/3/13)
Washington Post: Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester. (4/3/13)
PolicyMic: Sequestration is Rolling Back Advances in Autism (3/31/13)
Coalition on HUman Needs: Weekly Sequestration Update (3/27/13)
Minn Post: Sequestration is a big blow to an already ailing mental-health system (3/27/13)
HHS Office of Head Start: Head Start Sequestration Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). See also these program instructions.
Coalition on Human Needs: Impacts of Sequestration (updated 3/22/13)
Los Angeles Times: Sequestration will take big bite from medical research funding (3/21/13)
HHS Administration for Community Living: AIDD Releases Implementation of Sequestration for AIDD State Formula Grant Programs (3/21/13)
National Association of State Budget Officers: Sequester’s Impact on Community Services and Social Services Block Grants (3/20/13)
The Atlantic: The Worst Victims of the Education Sequester: Special-Needs Students and Poor Kids (3/18/13)
New York Times: As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard (3/3/13)
Los Angeles Times: 'Sequester' cuts to hit healthcare hard (2/27/13)
Huffington Post: Sequester Science Cuts Threaten To Delay Medical Breakthroughs, Further Brain Drain To Wall Street (2/27/13)
Washington Post: NIH head warns cuts will stall its research (2/25/13)
Washington Post: Former NIH Director: The sequester Will Set Back Medical Science for a Generation (2/21/13)
Social Security Administration: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/7/13)
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)

Homeland Security

ProPublica: As Need for New Flood Maps Rises, Congress and Obama Cut Funding (5/24/13)
The Atlantic: Oklahoma Tornado Fallout: The Sequester Cut Disaster Assistance and Weather-Warning Funds (5/21/13)
National Public Radio: Sequestration May Make Hurricane Season Stormier Than Usual (5/16/13)
Federal News Radio: DHS, DoD asking OMB for sequestration reprogramming authority (4/19/13)
Federal News Radio: CBP postpones 60,000 furloughs, overtime cuts (4/1/13)
U.S. Rep. Ron Barber (AZ-2): Sequester could threaten border security (3/21/13)
Transort Topics: Despite Sequestration Delays, Retail Imports Expected to Rise (3/21/13)
Federal News Radio: CBP issues tens of thousands of furlough notices (3/8/13)
Federal Times: DHS: Sequester to harm cybersecurity programs (3/8/13)
Washington Post: Customs and Border Protection to issue furlough notices Thursday (3/6/13)
Huffington Post: Janet Napolitano: Sequestration Already Causing Airport Delays (3/4/13)
Federal News Radio: Coast Guard: Budget cuts to limit flights, patrols (2/27/13)
CNN: White House was 'unaware' of immigration detainee release (2/27/13)
Washington Post: Citing fiscal crunch, the government releases “several hundred” detained immigrants (2/26/13)
Washington Post: As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released (2/26/13)
The Hill: Napolitano warns 'core critical mission' of DHS will suffer from sequester (2/26/13)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (1/31/13)

Housing and Urban Development

ThinkProgress: Sequestration Takes Away Services That Are Proven To Reduce Homelessness (7/25/13)
Moyers & Company: Mapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing (7/17/13)
The Daily Californian: Berkeley Housing Authority cuts vouchers due to sequester (6/10/13)
Los Angeles Times: HUD to shut down offices as a result of sequester (5/17/13)
Slate: Sequestration's Unkindest Cut: Housing Assistance (4/3/13)
Santa Maria Times: Federal sequestration hits local nonprofits (4/2/13)
Center on BUdget and Policy Priorities: Sequestration Could Deny Rental Assistance to 140,000 Low-Income Families (4/2/13)
Washington Post: HUD to close agency during furlough days (3/27/13)
CSH: As Effects of Sequestration Begin to Impact Communities, HUD Issues 2012 McKinney Renewals (3/20/13)
Federal News Radio: Sequestration to force HUD to shut down for 7 days (3/12/13)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Sequestration’s Bad News for Low-Income Housing (3/8/13)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Sequestration Information Page (3/5/13)
New York Times: As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard (3/3/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Puts Rental Assistance Programs In Jeopardy (3/2/13)
CNBC: Why Sequestration Will Hit Housing on Several Fronts (2/20/13)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/5/13)

Interior

Huffington Post: Sequester Not Yet Affecting Government Fire Response (7/11/13)
Washington Post: Firefighting capacity for wildfires curbed by funding cuts, officials say (5/13/13)
Washington City Paper: Smithsonian Doesn’t Know Which Art Galleries Will Close Due to Sequestration (4/17/13)
Think Progress: House Republicans Question Sequestration’s Impacts On National Parks Despite Obvious Cuts Already Occurring (4/17/13)
TPM: Sequestration Takes Its Axe To National Parks (4/17/13)
Washington Post: Sequestration to force rolling closures of some Smithsonian art galleries (4/16/13)
Think Progress: Sequestration Cuts Hit The National Parks Hard (3/27/13)
NPR: Sequester Forces National Parks To Cut Costs (3/26/13)
Federal Times: National Park Service plans for sequestration cuts (3/12/13)
Washington Post: Yellowstone gets real about budget cuts (3/10/13)
Bureau of Land Management: Furlough Notice (3/1/13)
USA Today: National Parks Could Be Hard Hit by Sequestration Cuts (2/21/13)
WTVR.com: Sequestration Could Mean Big Cuts for National Park Service (2/17/13)
Washington Post: National Park Advocates Pressing Congress to Prevent Deep Budget Cuts (2/16/13)
U.S. Department of the Interior: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)

Justice

Wonk Blog: The FBI can’t investigate terrorists and fraudsters due to budget cuts (9/30/13)
Washington Post: New FBI Director James B. Comey stunned by impact of sequestration on agents in the field (9/27/13)
"Voices from the Field: FBI Agent Accounts of the Real Consequences of Budget Cuts" (9/13)
New York Times: F.B.I. Plans to Close Offices for 10 Days to Cut Costs (9/12/13)
Washington Post: Budget cuts ‘threaten’ justice for the poor; defenders furloughed, but not prosecutors (8/20/13)
Washington Post: Judges urge Congress to avoid more sequestration cuts (8/15/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration's Biggest Victim: The Public Defender System (7/22/13)
Brennan Center for Justice: Federal Defender Fact Sheet (7/16/13)
The Atlantic: How the Sequester Is Holding Up Our Legal System (7/12/13)
AP: Federal public defenders warn of dire budget cuts (7/2/13)
Mother Jones: Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence (5/6/13)
Washington Post: Public defenders offices shouldn’t suffer under sequestration (4/18/13)
U.S. Courts: Statement on Impact of Sequestration on Judiciary, Defender Funding (4/17/13)
New York Times: Sequestration of Justice (4/11/13)
Baltimore Sun: Furloughs begin for federal public defenders (4/3/13)
Stateline: Sequester Cuts at Justice Department Threaten Local Drug Investigations (4/2/13)
U.S. Courts: With Friday Closures, Curtailed Service, Sequestration Hits Courts (4/2/13)
Huffington Post: Eric Holder Delays Justice Department Furlough Decisions Until Mid-April (3/28/13)
The Hill: Sequestration cuts threaten to undermine VAWA programs (3/26/13)
Washington Post: Federal prison staffers avoid furloughs (3/23/13)
Federal News Radio: Federal defenders face deep cuts, delays in cases (3/23/13)
U.S. Department of Justice: Furlough Notice (2/20/13)
U.S. Department of Justice: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)
FBI: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)

Labor

CNBC: Jobless about to take big hit from sequester (7/6/13)
Washington Post: Sequester brings pain to the long-term jobless (7/2/13)
NELP: State Implementation of the Sequester Cuts to Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Program (7/13)
Science Blogs: Sequestration and OSHA: Impact so far seems minor, but advocates brace for an uncertain future (6/7/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Cuts Taking Money Out Of Unemployed People's Pockets (5/15/13)
Think Progress: 11 States May End Long-Term Unemployment Insurance Due To Sequestration (4/17/13)
Think Progress: Sequestration Cuts Soon To Hit Long-Term Unemployment Insurance (4/2/13)
Washington Post: Legal efforts to pursue mine safety claims cut under sequestration (3/30/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Guts Mine Safety Grants As Coal Companies Owe Millions In Back Fines (3/26/13)
Washington Post: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission faces furloughs if sequester continues (3/21/13)
DOL Employment and Training Administration: Unemployment Insurance Program Instructions (3/8/13)
Federal Times: Labor Dept. employees get furlough notices (3/8/13)
Huffington Post: Sequestration Sends States Scrambling To Implement Unemployment Cut (3/7/13)
National Employment Law Project: The Sequester's Devastating Impact on Families of Unemployed Workers and the Struggling Unemployment Insurance System (2/27/13)
Safety.BLR.com: White House warns sequester could reduce OSHA inspectors (2/26/13)
U.S. Department of Labor: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/1/13)

NASA

Florida Today: Sequestration could slow NASA, NSF search for planets (5/9/13)
Science Recorder: NASA: Sequestration could interfere with plans to launch manned spacecraft by 2017 (3/31/13)
Federal Times: Sequester, spending bill chop NASA funding (3/22/13)
NBC News: Sequestration forces NASA to hold up educational and outreach efforts (3/22/13)
NASA: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/5/13)

State

DoD Buzz: Sequestration Threatens Embassy Security Additions (4/19/13)
The Hill: Sequester cuts hurting US foreign policy (3/25/13)
Antiwar.com: Kerry: Sequestration Might Force Cuts in Israel Aid (2/15/13)
Huffington Post: Cutting Lives from the Budget? What Sequestration Could Mean for the World's Hungry (2/12/13)
U.S. State Department: Letter from Secretary of State Kerry to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/11/13)

Transportation

The Hill: DOT chief: Sequestration a ‘blunt instrument’ that should be replaced (8/1/13)
Washington Post: Bad bridges have hidden cost (6/18/13)
The Guardian: Obama slams Congress over 'Band-Aid' fix on aviation sequester cuts (4/27/2013)
Huffington Post: Flight Delays Deal Has Other Sequestration Victims Asking Congress, WTF? (4/26/13)
New York Times: Flights Delayed Across Country Amid Budget-Cut Furloughs of Air Controllers (4/22/13)
U.S. Dept of Transportation: Sequestration requires Federal Aviation Administration
to cut costs; commitment to safety remains (4/1/13)
Politico: Sequestration: Cuts' slow rollout yields no-quester for travelers (3/31/13)
Federal News Radio: FAA to close 149 air traffic towers under cuts (3/23/13)
U.S. Dept of Transportation: Sequestration of Highway Funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 (3/22/13)
Transport Topics: Sequestration and the Canada-U.S. Border (3/22/13)
Huffington Post: FAA Furlough Notices Go Out Due To Sequestration (3/6/13)
Wall Street Journal: Airports See Few Problems Thus Far (3/5/13)
Washington Post: The sequester and transportation (2/26/13)
The Hill: LaHood: FAA furloughs will be necessary if sequester takes effect (2/24/13)
Federal News Radio: Obama administration: Cuts to cause flight delays (2/22/13)
New York Times: Federal Spending Cuts Threaten Delays in Air Travel (2/21/13)
U.S. Department of Transportation: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/11/13)

Treasury

Huffington Post: Sequestration Weakens Inspectors General, Making It Harder To Detect Waste And Fraud (5/21/13)
Huffington Post: Offshore Tax Havens: Sequestration Damages IRS Battle With Tax Evasion (4/30/13)
Washington Post: IRS will not furlough until after tax filing season (2/28/13)
The Hill: Union to discuss sequester furloughs with IRS (2/28/13)
U.S. Department of Treasury: Letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (2/7/13)

State and Local

National Women's Law Center: Impact of Sequestration Cuts on Head Start, Child Care and Early Education: State and Local Examples (7/18/13)
Economic Policy Institute: What do current federal funding levels in the wake of sequestration mean for state budgets? (5/29/13)
Governing Magazine: Full Coverage of Sequestration's Impact on States and Localities (3/4/13)
Coalition on Human Needs: 50-State and National Sequestration Fact Sheets (3/1/13)
Pew Center on the States: Federal Spending as a Percent of State GDP (2/27/13)
Washington Post: Impact of budget cuts depends on where you live and who you are (2/26/13)
Washington Post: White House Estimates of State-by-state Impacts of Sequestration (2/24/13)

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