Sequestration

The Air Force turns to rank and file to ferret out waste, following the example of the private sector.

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute of Health, on how sequester cuts have caused anxiety for young researchers.

As government spending on medical research drops, some would-be scientists are having second thoughts.

Air traffic controllers from JFK to LAX have begun their furloughs, making for long and painful delays, especially flying into and out of the big East Coast airports around New York City.

One month to the day after the sequester supposedly kicked in, the housing market and stock market are driving an economic recovery.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development chooses total shutdown over furloughs.

The U.S. Army is freezing all new applications for its tuition assistance program because of the sequester. As David Gura reports, the elimination of the much relied-upon program is among the first tangible repercussions of the automatic budget cuts.

The Federal Aviation Administration has identified dozens of airfields that could be closed, many of which are regularly used by business travelers and executives.

"I'm disappointed the White House has chosen to comply with sequestration by cutting public tours," the Speaker of the House said.

A guide to living under austerity (and that's another word for sequester).