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Saturday, March 9, 2013

West Wing employees to face furloughs, pay cuts

In class on Wednesday we talked about possible consequences of the sequester.  This Politico article talks about how the employees in the West Wing will most likely be affected.  In the clip attached with the article deputy White House press secretary John Earnest says that the people, "who work here at the White House that will be facing pay cuts, that will be facing furloughs and again, this is the result of a policy that Democrats and Republicans agree is really bad.” 

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