Image #: 21414789 Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) leaves after speaking about sequestration at a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 28, 2013 in Washington, D.C. If Congress fails to ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The conventional wisdom seems to be that the sequester — the ...

range of options, fully one-quarter of the public admitted that they did not know. Even more (38 percent) chose one of the incorrect explanations. Just over one-in-three voters correctly pegged it as ...

Defining a crisis: if something affects only "invisible" Americans like the poor and the elderly, Washington doesn't seem to see it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Americans are not especially worried about the mandatory federal spending cuts set to begin March 1, widely cited polling by Pew ...

The U.S. has entered the dreaded sequester, a very costly consequence of the federal government failing to reach a budget deal by their self-imposed deadline (March 1). This is one for the history ...

It’s not yet been two months since the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester went into effect, but some members of Congress are already unhappy with the results. Subscribe to read this story ...

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the sequester, accompanied by emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will likely go into effect on March 1 despite opposition in both parties. President Obama has ...

Every day that passes without a deficit-cutting deal makes it more likely that the federal government will be forced into its first "sequester" in nearly 30 years, a problem of politicians' own making ...