Obama calling GOP senators to talk sequester fix

The sequester likely won't cause meat and poultry shortages for a while—thanks, in part, to union negotiations and USDA inspectors' lack of email access. Furloughs to Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

After weeks of stalemate with Republican leadership over a deal to replace the wide-ranging, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, President Obama has been consulting with a new set of Republican lawmakers, who are high-profile but

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service is warning of five-day delays for container inspections at the Port New York and New Jersey — the East Coast's busiest port — because of automatic cuts in federal spending, a situation industry officials

What's a trillion-dollar budget cut deal without a few laughs? Check out last night's 'SNL' parody of the sequester.

The basic amount of the sequester is $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. But when you reduce spending, you also reduce interest on the national debt. This means that we only need $984 billion in actual program