Mar 12, 2013 ... Some readers have asked why we did not offer a fact check of House Speaker  John Boehner's statement on NBC's Meet the Press that “even today, there's no  plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester.” Our  colleagues at PolitiFact gave that statement a “Pants on Fire” rating, ...
Feb 28, 2013 ... Congressional leaders say there is no Plan B and that the sequester, as the cuts  are known in Washington, will be phased in over the next seven .... Y.) said  Senate Democrats will propose deficit-reduction measures to replace the  sequester when they bring a budget resolution to the floor next month.
Mar 4, 2013 ... BOEHNER: Now listen, we've known about this for 16 months. And yet even  today, there's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the  sequester. And over the last 10 months, House Republicans have acted twice to  replace the sequester. There are smarter ways to cut spending than ...
Feb 20, 2013 ... Sequestration — or, more precisely, the "supercommittee sequestration" — is a  group of cuts to federal spending that took effect March 1. ..... Before March 1,  House Democrats, led by Budget Committee ranking member Chris Van Hollen,  proposed replacing the $85 billion in 2013 sequester cuts with a mix ...
Mar 16, 2017 ... To appropriate funding as the White House wants, Trump would need to repeal  or subvert sequestration. To do that, he would need to overcome the threat of a  Senate filibuster. To do that, he would need to woo some number of Democrats.  To do that, he would need to overhaul his budget figures. And in ...
There's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester.