White House Email: Make Sequestration Cuts as Painful as Possible

Because they really care about the United States, right? From NewsMax:

An email sent out by the Obama administration earlier this week appears to show a strategy designed to drive home the most dire predictions of the effects of sequestration, even if that is not necessarily the case.

Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., sent an email to Washington officials asking “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.

Brown received the following reply: "We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.'

"So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”

On Saturday, $85 billion in automatic spending cuts began to go into effect, leaving the Obama White House with tough decisions to make on cuts. Administration officials have argued repeatedly that their hands are tied by the way the cuts were written into law.

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