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Pentagon Braces for Automatic Cuts

Published February 20, 2013

The U.S. defense department is bracing for massive cuts as a March 1 deadline draws near for the White House and Congress to reach a budget deal and avert automatic cuts to the entire federal budgetn, known as sequestration. VOA Pentagon correspondent Luis Ramirez reports.

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