Sequester

Although Congress has avoided several fiscal deadlines in the eleventh-hour in the last few months, many political analysts are not optimistic a sequester deal will be struck.

As the government gets closer to the sequester deadline, the warnings about what the federal budget cuts would mean are getting louder.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says the mechanism of the sequester cuts to the Defense Department is "dumb."

The Weekly Wrap considers a better way to describe the sequester cuts coming next week.

Former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) first used 'sequester' in a budget bill during the Reagan years. He still likes the term and the idea.

Cuts in defense spending as part of the sequester could ripple to suppliers outside the U.S.

The president gave interviews Wednesday to eight local TV stations in markets with a lot at stake in the fight over the across the board budget cuts.

Give us your suggestions for a better word for "sequester."

Walmart, Safeway and other grocers face more than higher payroll taxes. High gas prices could crimp shoppers, but job growth could help.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) explains why across-the-board cuts on defense spending and elsewhere is bad business.