WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and tea party Republicans have killed a GOP plan to give the president more flexibility to apply automatic government spending cuts due to start on Friday.
The failed bill would have required President Barack Obama to try to replace the budget cuts in hopes of shifting money to ease shortfalls in top-priority programs like air traffic control, federal courts and meat inspection.
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