Four days and counting. But who's counting? President Barack Obama for one.
That's how long before government-wide budget cuts begin to hit home that will slash spending by roughly $85 billion over the next seven months.
And more are on the way if Congress and the president can't figure out how to replace Friday's indiscriminate autopilot cuts — called a "sequester" in government jargon — with more targeted measures.
Obama told the nation's governors on Monday, "Unfortunately, in just four days Congress is poised to allow serious and arbitrary automatic budget cuts to kick in that will slow our economy, eliminate good jobs and leave a lot of folks who are already pretty thinly stretched scrambling to figure out what to do."
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