Defense Secretary Ash Carter warns that sequestration will make the nation “less secure.” Sen. John McCain says it will set the military “on a far more dangerous course.” And Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen ...

This won’t hurt a bit. Just kidding. Sequestration could hurt a lot, for a lot of people. By now you’ve probably heard or read a thing or two about sequestration, the $85 billion in spending cuts due ...

Someday, these budget wars are going to end. On that day, when the world is once again safe for the passage of farm bills and Ted Cruz has finally run out of historical analogies, we’ll remember the ...

Our country is headed for a fiscal cliff. We’re also headed for a national security crisis thanks to one large component of this fiscal cliff — the $1.2 trillion automatic budget sequestration due to ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 13, 2013) -- On Capitol Hill Feb. 13, the Army's chief of staff told lawmakers in very clear terms what budget reductions under sequestration would do to Soldiers ...

When it became clear that sequestration meant most of the military branches would have to suspend tuition assistance—a program that allows active-duty service members to work toward degrees or enroll ...

Sequestration is a fiscal policy procedure adopted by Congress to deal with the federal budget deficit. In simple terms, it's a way of forcing cutbacks in spending on government programs and then ...

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey hold a news conference at the Pentagon on June 29, 2012 (Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters). Over a year ago, on August 2, 2011, President Obama ...