Office of Management & Budget Report To Congress On Sequestration For Fiscal Year 2013

March 1, 2013
The White House Office of Management and Budget described its calculations for the sequestration process required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 . On March 1, 2013, all departments of the federal government began making mandatory across-the-board cuts required by the sequestration process, with a reduction of five-percent or more to most federal human service programs for federal fiscal year 2013. Government-wide, the cuts reduce planned budget allocations by $85 billion for federal fiscal year 2013; the Department of Health and Human Services lost $15.5 billion. This document shows how the cuts . . .