After Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., faulted President Obama yesterday for attacking a “tax loophole for corporate jets” that benefits farmers who own crop dusters, the White House offered him as the face of Republican obstinence on sequestration today.

“Are Republicans in Congress really willing to let these cuts fall on our kids’ schools and mental health care just to protect tax loopholes for corporate jet owners?” Obama asked in his weekly address on Saturday while calling for Republicans to raise taxes in order to avoid the automatic spending cuts mandated by sequestration. Closing the “loophole” would raise about $30 million a year, thereby doing little to offset the $85 billion spending reduction required this year under the sequester.

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