{"id":644856,"date":"2013-03-01T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=0416219aa981ba6bc9a4e0f0f5c76569"},"modified":"2013-03-01T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:49:59","slug":"in-press-conference-president-obama-talks-about-moving-forward-despite-sequester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644856","title":{"rendered":"In Press Conference, President Obama Talks About Moving Forward Despite Sequester"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>President Obama held a press conference this morning after meeting with Congressional leaders to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/sequester\/the-presidents-plan\">his plans<\/a> to move the country&nbsp;forward in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/sequester\">severe budget cuts<\/a> that will start to take effect today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These cuts, which are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/sequester\">known&nbsp;as the sequester<\/a>,&nbsp;will hurt our economy and cost us jobs, the President said. And as Americans all across the country work hard to keep our economic recovery going, arbitrary cuts to&nbsp;services and investments&nbsp;that businesses and workers depend on makes that far more difficult.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/03\/01\/statement-president-sequester\">But none of this is necessary, President Obama said<\/a>. These cuts are &quot;happening because of a choice that Republicans in Congress have made.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit.&nbsp;As recently as yesterday, they decided to protect special interest tax breaks for the well-off and well-connected, and they think that that&rsquo;s apparently more important than protecting our military or middle-class families from the pain of these cuts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I do believe that we can and must replace these cuts with a more balanced approach that asks something from everybody: Smart spending cuts; entitlement reform; tax reform that makes the tax code more fair for families and businesses without raising tax rates &#8212;&nbsp; all so that we can responsibly lower the deficit without laying off workers, or forcing parents to scramble for childcare, or slashing financial aid for college students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/press-conference-president-obama-talk-about-moving-forward-despite-sequester\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama held a press conference this morning after meeting with Congressional leaders to talk about his plans to move the country&nbsp;forward in light of the severe budget cuts that will start to take effect today. These cuts, which are known&nbsp;as the sequester,&nbsp;will hurt our economy and cost us jobs, the President said. And as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}