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White House: Automatic Cuts to Come Friday Night at Midnight

Thursday, 28 February 2013 06:47 PM EST

The White House says automatic spending reductions set to kick in Friday will be put off until as close to midnight on Friday as possible. Call them the Cinderella cuts.

The law, passed by Congress on Jan. 2, simply says that “on March 1, 2013, the president shall order a sequestration for fiscal year 2013.”

That’s budget talk for an $85 billion reduction in defense and domestic spending between now and Oct. 1. Obama can issue that order at any point in the day Friday.

And White House press secretary Jay Carney says that means midnight Friday, or as close to midnight as possible: 11:59 p.m. and 59 seconds.

Because, in Carney’s words: Obama is “ever hopeful.”

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The White House says automatic spending reductions set to kick in Friday will be put off until as close to midnight on Friday as possible.
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