
Political Checklist: Sequestration
Clip: 8/2/2012 | 2m 56s
Christina Bellantoni with Margaret Warner.
NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni and Margaret Warner discuss the politics of the national debt, five months before automatic across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are set to reduce all discretionary spending by as much as 10 percent.
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Political Checklist: Sequestration
Clip: 8/2/2012 | 2m 56s
NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni and Margaret Warner discuss the politics of the national debt, five months before automatic across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are set to reduce all discretionary spending by as much as 10 percent.
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