The Greatest Sequester Lie of All: We’ve Already Saved $84 Billion!

We’ve already saved the billions of dollars the sequester is meant to save. So why are we about to jump off the cliff, asks an astonished Daniel Gross.

Daniel Gross

Published Feb. 27 2013 1:50PM EST

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The sequester is rapidly approaching. If no one stops it, we’ll experience automatic and devastating spending cuts of $84 billion between now and this fall.

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There are many insane things about this, but one in particular strikes me as ludicrous beyond comprehension: the deficit has already shrunk by $84 billion so...

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The Greatest Sequester Lie of All: We’ve Already Saved $84 Billion!

We’ve already saved the billions of dollars the sequester is meant to save. So why are we about to jump off the cliff, asks an astonished Daniel Gross.

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