Obama goes on offensive to stop drastic spending cuts

Obama goes on offensive to stop drastic spending cuts

February 19, 2013 4:51 AM

While Congress is on vacation, President Obama gets back into the fight over the automatic budget cuts in an attempt to frame the choice as protecting public safety or protecting the kind of tax loopholes he wants to cut.

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