U.S. stares down start of steep "automatic" budget cuts

The U.S. government hurtled on Friday toward making deep spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nation’s economic recovery, after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on an alternative deficit-reduction plan. Locked in during a bout of deficit-reduction fever in 2011, the time-released “…

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U.S. stares down start of steep "automatic" budget cuts