Sequestration is on track to begin Friday, but there’s still time to change how some of those automatic federal spending cuts will happen, U.S. Rep. Phil Roe said today.
Roe, R-Tenn., told reporters in a conference call that House Speaker John Boehner has had enough meetings despite calls from President Barack Obama to avert the March 1 sequester.
“There aren’t going to be any deals done by those three (Obama, Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid),” Roe said.
But Roe observed there will be “time and latitude” to change how the cuts take place if a continuing budget resolution that runs out at the
end of March is moved to the start of the federal budget year in October.