Deja Vu All Over Again As 'Sequester' Deadline Looms
Update at 11:55 a.m. ET. As Expected, No Deal:
President Obama and Congressional leaders met at the White House Friday morning and, just as pundits predicted, they could not reach a deal to avert the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts set to begin at the end of the day. We've posted on that news:
Decrying 'Dumb, Arbitrary Cuts,' Obama Says 'We Will Get Through This'
Our original post and earlier updates:
It's like Groundhog Day, as NPR's Ari Shapiro said on Morning Edition.
Or maybe you prefer the way baseball's most quotable notable, Yogi Berra, would put it: "Deja vu all over again."
Whichever you choose, today's front page news is a repeat of stories we've seen play out before. We're again on the edge of a "cliff" — another in a series of deadlines created by lawmakers in Washington.