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LaHood: Flight delays if forced cuts happen
We're just days away from automatic federal spending cuts, and another government official is warning what the effects will be if lawmakers don't come up with a way to avoid them.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said minutes ago that the cuts will, if they take effect, heavily impact the Federal Aviation Administration and likely trigger flight delays nationwide and air traffic control tower closures at some small airports as soon as April.
Mandatory, government-wide budget cuts are due to begin on March 1 absent congressional action on deficit-reduction to avert them. The cuts are mandated by a 2011 agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling.
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No one seems to give a damn now, but when the budget cuts hit the pocketbooks of Americans at the local level ....there will be outrage!
P.T.: Agree! The problem, for me, is when the outrage hits ALL of us, what exactly will we do? At this point in time I am not even sure if WE could VOTE these "elected children" out of office!
And they will.
Those pushing 'sequestration' never give a damn anyway.
However we are no longer the 'out rage' nation @Portland tony.
So much done to us in the past decade, in the name of whatever grabbed politicians fancy and yet we plod on.
People just dont give a god dam freaking dam. Its all about money.
Tony & saywhat are right. once the cuts hit city hall usa, outrage will come in.