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Furloughs and sequestration: Who will suffer?

"This is not going to be an apocalypse .... It’s just dumb," President Obama told reporters on Friday, hours before the sequestration deadline.

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Obama's allegedly making a Walmart run -- for a budget director.

Obama nominates Walmart Foundation's Burwell for budget chief

Obama makes a Walmart run -- for a new budget director.

US President Barack Obama speaks to the media about sequestration in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, March 1, 2013 following a meeting with US Speaker of the House John Boehner and Congressional leaders.

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