range of options, fully one-quarter of the public admitted that they did not know. Even more (38 percent) chose one of the incorrect explanations. Just over one-in-three voters correctly pegged it as ...

Image #: 21414789 Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) leaves after speaking about sequestration at a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 28, 2013 in Washington, D.C. If Congress fails to ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The conventional wisdom seems to be that the sequester — the ...

Defining a crisis: if something affects only "invisible" Americans like the poor and the elderly, Washington doesn't seem to see it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Remember the Republicans' debt-ceiling crisis in 2011? It was about a year and a half ago when GOP leaders handed President Obama a ransom note: accept more than $2 trillion in debt reduction or the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Americans are not especially worried about the mandatory federal spending cuts set to begin March 1, widely cited polling by Pew ...

Standing in front of dozens of uniformed first responders, President Obama on Tuesday warned Congress that “hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs if a March 1 sequester is allowed to ...

President Obama’s message could not be clearer: Life as we know it in America will change dramatically on March 1, when automatic cuts are imposed to achieve $85 billion in government-spending ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will likely go into effect on March 1 despite opposition in both parties. President Obama has ...

The White House has argued that the March 1 sequester of federal spending — a cut of approximately 5 percent from the domestic-spending programs covered by the sequester requirement, along with 8 ...