The White House Friday released a report detailing, in part, what life would look like on the other side of the fiscal cliff, which could occur at the end of the year.
Under orders from Congress, the administration detailed exactly how it would administer painful cuts to both defense and domestic programs that were ordered under last year’s budget deal.
These cuts aren’t supposed to happen. As the Office of Management and Budget explains in its introduction to the report, the threat of cuts is meant to spur action:
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