On this week's installment of POLITICO's podcast "The Scrum," our reporters delve deep into the sequester. As the deadline to automatic cuts looms, President Obama launched a cross-country messaging offensive against Congressional Republicans. Though on recess, GOP continues to hammer home the assertion that the sequester was the White House’s idea.
Senior political reporters Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns discuss the potential fallout for both sides with podcast host Alexander Trowbridge.
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Senior Washington correspondent Jonathan Allen and congressional reporter Kate Nocera share their reporting and analysis on the nitty-gritty of the sequester, from the policy objectives of the White House and House Republicans, to how the fight is affecting life on Capitol Hill.
Plus, media reporter Dylan Byers on journalists' general fatigue with down-to-the-wire budget battles and the White House press corps' fight for more access to President Obama.
Articles mentioned by these reporters on The Scrum:
•Obama sequester strategy: Shame
•Boehner's office dubs it 'Obamaquester'
•Bloomberg poll
•USA Today/Pew Research Center poll
•Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
•Sensing weakness, Rove critics pounce
•Congress prepares for sequestration
•Lawmakers protect home turf from sequester
•Behind the Curtain: Obama, the puppet master
•White House access: Did Ed Henry blow it?
•Carney to White House press corps: 'I am completely sympathetic'
Senior political reporters Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns discuss the potential fallout for both sides with podcast host Alexander Trowbridge.
Continue Reading [h=4]The Scrum[/h]
Senior Washington correspondent Jonathan Allen and congressional reporter Kate Nocera share their reporting and analysis on the nitty-gritty of the sequester, from the policy objectives of the White House and House Republicans, to how the fight is affecting life on Capitol Hill.
Plus, media reporter Dylan Byers on journalists' general fatigue with down-to-the-wire budget battles and the White House press corps' fight for more access to President Obama.
Articles mentioned by these reporters on The Scrum:
•Obama sequester strategy: Shame
•Boehner's office dubs it 'Obamaquester'
•Bloomberg poll
•USA Today/Pew Research Center poll
•Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
•Sensing weakness, Rove critics pounce
•Congress prepares for sequestration
•Lawmakers protect home turf from sequester
•Behind the Curtain: Obama, the puppet master
•White House access: Did Ed Henry blow it?
•Carney to White House press corps: 'I am completely sympathetic'