something has to give and as it's unlikely to be federal Salaries, Medicare, pensions, interest on the national Debt, homeland security etc
You do realise that sequestration is an
automatic 10% cut to
many budgets each year until the politicians can agree on a budget.
And so the deficit issue will solve itself eventually.
The pentagon was voted the ability to choose where its cuts apply but every other department loses a further 10% each year without any discretion whatsoever. Apparently, the F-35 will be the last budget to be cut, everything else will go first..