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No progress in White House talks on automatic budget cuts

Congressional leaders met with President Obama at the White House on Friday to discuss ways to avoid the steep budget cuts known as the sequester, but the meeting ended about an hour later with no sign of a breakthrough. Afterward, President Obama said in a press conference that "many middle class families will have their lives disrupted in significant ways" by the budget cuts. "The pain will be real." He predicted again that the cuts will cost 750,000 jobs and slow growth, and vowed to reach out to senators and representatives in the weeks to come.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/01/obama-on-sequester-the-pain-will-be-real/