Republicans Push To Rebrand Automatic Spending Cuts As Deadline Nears

NPR | Feb. 11, 2013 3:28 p.m.

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With the deadline approaching for automatic spending cuts, Republicans in Congress are pushing hard to rebrand the cuts that were agreed to as part of the debt-ceiling agreement of 2011. The sequester is now the president's sequester, according to congressional Republicans.