After weeks of dire forecasts about the consequences of automatic federal budget cuts, Washington-area residents awoke Friday to a region mostly unchanged by the onset of sequestration.

But the longer President Obama and Congress stay stalemated, the more likely it is that effects of the cuts will begin to register.

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