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Washington Week: Focus on Effects of Automatic Spending Cuts

Published March 03, 2013

The U.S. government has begun a crash diet of automatic spending cuts in pursuit of better fiscal health. In the days and weeks ahead, politicians in Washington will be monitoring the effects of those cuts and the public’s reaction as federal services are reduced. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports.

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