Obama: Delay budget cuts
Recovery, jobs are at risk, he tells Congress
Posted: February 6, 2013 at 12:41 a.m.
President Barack Obama gestures as speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The president will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to postpone automatic spending cuts scheduled to begin March 1 to avoid “real and lasting impacts” on U.S. economic growth.
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