2013 Sequester Was Not The Fault Of Republicans Or Democrats, It Was The Fault Of Men

Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 16:20 in Mathematics & Economics

In 2013, President Obama threatened to shut down the government if Congress did not do what he wanted. Congress replied in kind and so we got The Sequester, where government functions were halted unless they were specially exempted. NASA and the National Science Foundation were shuttered, the Smithsonian Panda Cam was turned off, science was doomed - but while scuttling science the president kept 436 personal White House staffers were kept on the payroll as "essential". read more

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