Be on the phone calls, if you want to weigh in on twitter, here is our handle. We will get to the phones and written comments shortly, and here is the cover story in the Washington Post. Susan davis rates susan davis writes the fbi might have fewer agents tracking down bad guys. These are only a few of the sweeping effects in the ongoing budget battle between the president and congress. Acrosstheboard cuts start to kick in on friday if washington does not have act. Susan davis writes. Writes usa today in its cover story, and making the rounds, ray lahood, transportation secretary who came out friday announcing cuts at airports. Here is more from the secretary. [video clip] the largest number of employees is at faa. We will try to cut as much as we possibly can out of contract and other things that we do, but in the ended there has to be some kind of for of air Traffic Control in the end there has to be some kind of furlough for air Traffic Controllers, and that will begin to curtail or eliminate the opportunity for them to guide airplanes in and out of airports. Host the secretary expanding on comments first made friday about airports. The white house put out this statebystate report. We printed out a version that was put out last night in the Washington Post. If you want to check this out, it is in alphabetical order. The alabama. Just as an example, they begin with alabama. They point out that illinois will lose 34 33. 4 ms. Million 33. 4 million for funding primary and secondary education. The Washington Post. Also, jobsearl be curtailed. Childcare will be curtailed. The stop violence against Women Program will lose money as well. This was a report put out by the white house last night. It is spurring lots of headlines. Here is the boston globe front page. We also have the front page of the miami herald. They say that in florida 750 fewer kids could receive vaccines. They also talk about california and North Carolina talking about teachers losing their jobs, and in North Carolina victims of Domestic Violence could go without treatment. One more headline from the denver post. This is colorado specifically. The first call this morning is from texas, houston, a republican named mike. Caller good morning. The president put out documentation on the impact of these cuts on the states when they go into affect, but the real issue is what would be the consequences on the country when the debt keeps going up, heading to 17 trillion . Those are the answers that we need from real leadership in the white house that we are not getting. Host sam. Maryland. You are on the air. Caller nobody should be using the word trillion. People need to say there is 16,000 billion, and then we can talk about other things. That would help the problem. What i really want to talk about is how the sequestration actually began. The republicans had six people on their team, the democrats had six people on their team, and they pick people far to the left and far to the right. The democrats picked should have picked three democrats, and the best options they had on the republican side, and that way there would have been five or six people in the middle that would have been able to move left or right to bring on a couple of people and we would not be in this situation. Host as we sit here in washington for days before the sequester is set to begin, we will let you know congress is in session and a couple of pieces of legislation are possible in the senate. We know the president is traveling around the country to talk about this issue and the impact and Dave Williams writes on facebook this morning that this is an entirely manufactured process by an inept administration. Don writes Congress Caused this whole mess, let it happen, you voted, many did not, now live with it. Im sick of hearing we have to keep on spending. Delaware. How are you. Caller it is hard to get real, straight facts out of the media. It seems to be playing at peoples emotions for political reasons. Is this basically just a reduction in the baseline increase, instead of spending 10 more, we will only spend eight percent more . Are there actually any cuts in this . Is this just washington afraid that there ability to keep taking money from people host they have been described as acrosstheboard cuts. Is there a particular area of the budget you are most concerned about . Guest caller the entire budget is too high. We ought to give every federal employee a 20 haircut and go from there. People do not know what the future is going to be in the private sector. Lets see what the federal worker and the federal politician feels about getting a haircut. To be that would solve the problem. If you saved 20 instead of the spending cut back, lets get some real cuts going here. It is out of control. Host thank you, jim. We will have more segments on the impact on the states and for federal employees. We will also focus on defense and Homeland Security specifically in the last hour of this program. As you know, defense will take a significant cut and john mccain, the senator from arizona was out there all over the weekend talking about that. [video clip] we have already cut, and now you lay on top of that hes enormous reductions as well, and, by the way, defense is 19 of the overall discretionary budget. Defense is taking 50 of the cuts. If we do not believe military leaders, who in the world do we believe . I think what we are doing now to the men and women better serving is unconscionable because they deserve it predictable life in the military, and also these federal employees who did not know when they are to be laid off or not, not to mention contracts. Host the New York Times reports on a little bit of a twist. Heres the lead story host fort worth, texas. Democrat on the line. Tony. Caller good morning. Host what part of the budget are you most concerned about cutting or most eager to see cut . Caller i am concerned about cuts in the military because i am former military, and i am concerned about cuts across the board. I feel it is a selfinflicted wound, and i am tired of congress, the president. The leaders of the country are ruining the country. This is caused by leadership the congress, the senate and the president , and they are killing the american people. This will not affect the people making the that checks. That checks. They will affect People Living in the daytoday lives. These people are suffering and they are playing chess with our lives. I think it is ridiculous. Host vick is calling from peoria, illinois. We heard from the white house on illinois, what you think will happen to your state . Caller we are way out there. One of the things that i called about, the military needs to get rid of independent contractors. They have people that run the commissaries. Let the military run that stuff. Jim said about the politicians start with their pay, Social Security, all those guys. We talk about taxing the wealthy. I am in the middle and i am worried that they really going to hit me. They talk about Warren Buffett paying a little. I did somebodys taxes,. 400, and got back 3400. That has to be completely wrong. Host a tweet from liz smith. To me, this blaming each other is totally useless. Just fixed the problem. Here is the lead in the Washington Post. They paid him from the reading this morning, it does not look clear legislation will pass before friday, but theyre looking beyond. We have another texan on the line. Mike, houston, again, republican. Caller thank you for having me. This was the president s deal with jack lew, and a ticket to area took it to harry reid. If nothing was done, this would happen. I do not like the defense cuts, but if they cannot cut 2. 5 of 3. 6 trillion, where is this country going . This is ridiculous. I have had to cut my budget 40 , and they cannot cut 2. 5 . Host that was mike in houston. Roy is an oak park, michigan. Caller good morning. I am a firsttime caller to c span and a longtime viewer. Thank you for taking my call. My comment is to the republicans who are seniors, my brothers and sisters, calling into cspan complaining about the National Debt and how we are passing this debt onto our grandkids, and i do not want to be too devastating by saying this, but the seniors should just die off. They have taken away from the medicare and medicaid system far more than what they contributed by the mere fact that they are living longer, having triple bypass operations, heart pacemaker operations, it and Knee Replacement surgery, and the cost for numerous prescription drugs. If they would just die off, their insurance policies that are being billed to their offspring, they can take that insurance policy, the children will end it, and this will create spend it and this will create a big bumping the economy. Host comments from roy and no part, michigan. Daniel, portland, oregon, you are on the air. Caller i have basically two comments or questions. One is first of all, they have never taken care of the wall street problem and the trouble with the stock market. We are still at day to those banks in the future. The second part of that, what makes it necessary that they have to go 10 years in projections to straighten out the budget and the trouble with the stock market . They should learn how to float before they learn how to swim. They can take care of the budget year to year. You cannot predict budget hurricanes, ramifications that might affect the budget throughout the year. It seems to me they should be able to learn how to deal with taking care of the budget on a yearly basis. Host raymond, georgia. Republican. What are your thoughts on the sequester . Caller any time you all talk there is nothing discussed about the white house cutting the budget, cutting some of the secret service, or the representative senators, laying them off to cut spending. Everything is out here, cutting , not out there, like some of those airplanes that he flies all over. Why not sell some of those . Everyone is talking about the people, cutting them, but nobody is saying anything about the white house cutting the capital. You talk about taxing the rich. Who owns walmart and all of those places . You tax the rich and they will charge you more for those products. Host 85 billion those cuts going to affect friday. We will hear lots of voices. Edward christianson writes 2. 5 of the budget and the world is falling apart. Give us a break. Congress and the president need a wakeup call from the people. We all should march on washington, and dc, and throw them all out on the street. The Washington Times writes on sequestration follies. They say it does not restrain enough. They write that it will produce an honest to goodness cut in defense, but the sky will hardly fall on the rest. Gail, tacoma, washington. You are on the line. Seek help i am concerned caller i am concerned that all they are talking about is either the reduction of spending in cuts, or taxing groups of people. I remember in world war ii when we had luxury taxes. If they had luxury taxes, it would be on things like extreme diamonds they were wearing at the oscars last night, and the big salaries that these people are getting entertainers, sports people. Those are choices that we could make whether we spend on them or not, and there should be luxury taxes on the big sports games. If we want to go, we should be willing to pay more to do those things, and it would only affect people if they wanted their luxury bad enough to pay the taxes on it. There are things that are certainly not needed by anyone in the country. So, i wish the congress would look at Something Like that. If we had to choose what we bought and knew that if we paid taxes on it if i had to buy an extra diamond ring or a luxury car, i would just realize, lucky me, i have that much money, and go ahead and pay the tax. Host dave, casper, wyoming must a republican. Wyoming. A republican. Caller good morning. I think the sequester should go through. A little bit of pain might wake us up to what is going on in this country and hopefully we can straighten this out. Host we will talk to the governor of michigan rick snyder who is in town for the governors meeting. The president hosted the governors at the white house. Here is a look at the post. [video clip] i want to wish everyone a toast for the work that we have done, the work that we look forward to doing. We look forward to seeing you again over the next several years. Cheers. Host one of the headlines coming out of the meetings in the New York Times. We will ask Governor Rick Snyder about that. This is the white house viewpoint, statebystate. I talk a lot about teachers, clean air, water, head start programs, child care and on and on. For more detail, go to usa today, which in the cover story lay out some specific areas. The pentagon said a majority of civilian employees will be furloughed. They talked about agricultural department, with meat and poultry inspectors facing furloughs. This information goes on and on , no matter where you read today. June is calling from wisconsin. Independent. Caller hi. I just want everybody to remember that we sent the people to washington who are our representatives to represent us, not their own egos. They should be furloughed. Everybody in congress who is against doing things to make this country grow, they should not get paid. They should be laid off and not get a pay raise for years. They are always big on cutting public workers. Listen, it has always been about Good Government jobs. Government workers spend the money, and other businesses hire more people. The republicans know that, and it is just a shame that we are at war and the things we are doing in congress are, like, treasonous to me, because it is bringing down our country. My senator, ron johnson, he needs to fully explain why he is not encouraging his peons in congress to do the right thing. Host thank you for calling, june. Maverick on twitter says that the cia, dhs, the fbi and most of all military contractors. Jeff on facebook writes debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, and now sequestered anyone ever hear of a boy and wolf . We have 15 minutes left for your calls. The two usa today back to usa today you can watch the senate on c span two. They are in today starting at 2 00 p. M. You can watch the president later this week. We will get you air times for those events. The wall street jerk the wall street journal lead story all of those people that are beneficiaries, they worked hard all their lives. That guy needs to probably not even be on air anymore. He had something disturbingly wrong with him. I want to also say that i think that the president , right now, is probably a good guy. I am not going to comment on going dead with president obama, but you know, i believe that our country is still the same that it was with our Founding Fathers when they found it. I just think that because of all the debt to all of these, all these is actually, you know, maybe the legislation and the senate has had to go, go through tough times now because of the actual follow the fall of the economy and maybe they actually resorted to borrowing or helping the wrong hand. There is so many people in the it would house that are, you know, secret societies and, you know, it is just that there are so many people in the white house that are actually the wrong people. It is scary. So i can see where the president is actually, you know, taxing the rich people, and it is a good thing because if he wouldnt be taxing them, they would waste the money on trips, you know . Host we hear from trudy now in mexico. Hi, trudy. Republican. Hi, there. Caller hi. Host what do you make of this . Caller just keep it going. The reason i called is a couple of weeks ago, big durbin was on one of the sunday talk shows. Cannot remember which one it was. But he said, they asked him about the president s idea for sequester. He said, well, it was threat, not a strategy. So i think that the republicans ought to go stay with it, and let him own up to it. As far as that guy that called about the elderly. I am 72 years old, and i try my best not to even go to the doctor because i am very healthy. I did have a hip implant a couple of months ago because i broke my hip, but i want to see that bill before you send it to medicare because i believe in fraud, and i just want to make sure that i am charged for what they did, not for what they think they ought to do. Host and grg is on the line from pennsylvania now. Welcome, george . Caller , yes, thank you. My comment is this, they preach getting a good education. We fot to kate our children. The first thing they want to do is cut education. They talk about National Security how they are trying to keep the country free, then they want to cut defense. Then we talk about the golden years, and what do they want to do . They want to cut Social Security, which people have already paid in for that Social Security so they can benefit in their golden years. Now this guy that called in about dying off, maybe they would be better off, too. George from pennsylvania there. A little bit more of defense via facebook this morning. Mills writes cut the spending by all means 100,000 military contractors in afghanistan. Stop the insanity. Little bit down the page, a little bit more on defense. Long writes our defense is crucial. A weak nation shows to our neighbor how we manage at the home front. An American Hero writes at twitter this morning, the cuts are not being made because of the republicans or the democrats. The cults are being made because were out of money. American hero there. To the pages of the Financial Times, they focus on page four today, about the longterm unemployed and the sequester. They write that the u. S. Longterm jobless will be among the earliest to be hit by the sequester on march 1st. Benefit payments will be cut by up to 9. 4 and a blow to Consumer Spending among lower income households. About 3. 8 Million People who have been unemployed for more than six months have received emergency federal bennetts worth about 300 a we can on av