https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/05/obama-blinks-on-the-sequester-gop-finally-has-the-upper-hand/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 04:45:21 -0400<![CDATA[Now Republicans have turned the tables on Obama. If nothing happens by March 1, about $1 trillion worth of spending cuts will go into effect automatically. Ideally, Republicans don’t want the military spending cuts, and they have voted in the House to replace them with other cuts. But they can live with them if nothing happens. Coming off the fourth quarter in which the economy contracted by 0.1 percent and was hurt by defense cuts, Obama doesn’t want to have headlines of defense contractor layoffs eroding his political capital in the short window he has to advance his second term agenda.]]>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:10:01 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/05/obama-blinks-on-the-sequester-gop-finally-has-the-upper-hand-n99894