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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider

Posted: 10:27 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

White House goes state by state on sequester 

By Jamie Dupree

Rejecting assertions of fear mongering, the White House on Sunday rolled out details of how $85 billion in automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit on Friday would hit all fifty states and Washington, D.C., painting a picture of job losses, economic hardship, health troubles and education setbacks.

"Unless Congress acts by March 1st, a series of automatic cuts — called the sequester — will take effect that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs, and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform," read the White House report.

The cookie cutter state by state data sheets roll out numbers on a variety of fronts, all designed to highlight the argument of President Obama that these cuts would wrongly take a chunk out of Uncle Sam's budget.

The White House focused on: * Teachers and schools, and how much states lose in education funding
* Money for education programs dealing with children with disabilities
* Budget cuts for programs that help low income students go to college
* Reductions in funding for Head Start
* Cuts in clean air and water programs
* Military cuts
* Law enforcement budget reductions
* Job training and aid for unemployed workers
* Federal aid for child care programs
* Childhood vaccination programs
* Cuts in overall public health programs
* Less money for services provided to domestic violence victims
* Reductions in food aid for seniors

You can see all of the state by state pages here:

  1. Alabama        
  2. Alaska        
  3. Arizona        
  4. Arkansas        
  5. California        
  6. Colorado        
  7. Connecticut        
  8. Delaware        
  9. District of Columbia
  10. Florida        
  11. Georgia        
  12. Hawaii        
  13. Idaho        
  14. Illinois        
  15. Indiana        
  16. Iowa        
  17. Kansas        
  18. Kentucky        
  19. Louisiana        
  20. Maine        
  21. Maryland        
  22. Massachusetts        
  23. Michigan        
  24. Minnesota        
  25. Mississippi        
  26. Missouri        
  27. Montana        
  28. Nebraska        
  29. Nevada        
  30. New Hampshire        
  31. New Jersey        
  32. New Mexico        
  33. New York        
  34. North Carolina        
  35. North Dakota        
  36. Ohio        
  37. Oklahoma        
  38. Oregon        
  39. Pennsylvania
  40. Rhode Island
  41. South Carolina
  42. South Dakota
  43. Tennessee
  44. Texas
  45. Utah
  46. Vermont
  47. Virginia
  48. Washington
  49. West Virginia
  50. Wisconsin
  51. Wyoming

As for the politics of the sequester, it wasn't hard to tell what message the White House wanted to hammer home over the weekend on the automatic budget cuts.

"It's going into effect because Republicans are choosing for it to go into effect," said White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, who repeatedly made no bones about his target during a Sunday conference call with reporters.

Republicans obviously see it a bit different, arguing the White House insistence on new tax revenues has set the stage for the lack of agreement on a way to modify these automatic cuts.

Will the White House pressure campaign work? Tell me below.

Jamie Dupree

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