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People in the News

Thursday, August 7, 2025

People in the News

Thursday, August 7, 2025

President Obama to Congress: Need balanced approach to budget woes, not the sequester

President Barack Obama used his weekly address to encourage Congress to get to work to avoid a series of harmful and automatic cuts—called a sequester—from going into effect that would hurt our economy and the middle class and threaten thousands of American jobs. The President urges Congress to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction that makes investments in areas that help us grow and cuts what we don’t need.

Weekly Address: Averting the Sequester and Finding a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction