It looks like the Obama administration is making sure ordinary Americans feel the pain of its loss in the sequester battle.
An email appears to direct an official to make cuts as devastating as the administration warned they would be.The Washington Times obtained an email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C.
The email asked “if there was any latitude” in spreading the sequester cuts across the region and lessening the impacts on fish inspections.
Officials in Washington replied that whatever he does, he needs to make sure he doesn’t contradict “what we said the impact would be.”
The reply explained: “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.”
Before sequestration went into effect Friday, the administration predicted it would be a catastrophe.
As WND reported, the public was warned the $85 billion in spending cuts would include the loss of police officers, firefighters, teachers, soldiers, air control towers and shipyards.
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