President Obama greets service members after arriving at Joint Base Langley-Eustis on February 26, 2013 in Virginia. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
After nearly two years since the failure of “grand bargain” talks between President Obama and Speaker Boehner in 2011, the first $85 billion of automatic budget cuts known as the sequester are set to kick in Friday, and there are no discussions scheduled to prevent it. President Obama heads to Virginia’s largest industrial employer on Tuesday and will visit Newport News Shipbuilding, which would be affected by cuts to naval spending.
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