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Sequester will be enforced. and there have been some suggestions that the obama administration has more power than it has suggested to enforce the cuts in a way that will not be so painful. one example would be we hear the obama administration talking about things like children's vaccines which will be cut. and what republicans are asking are, you know, is it really true that those are going to be on the front lines of these cuts? or was that merely a political move in order to build up opposition to the sequester? so republicans are doing this to conduct oversight, but also to do a fair bit o...

But not clearly what we'd expect. some of that is because the government spends money more slowly than we would think. a lot of it is because it hurts the economy. i'll give you one example. they're supposed to open yellowstone national park this weekend. but they've got to save money. so they're not running the snowplows through to open up the roads. that saves them about $250,000 in fuel costs. but you're losing $2 million in tourism business. that hurts all the hotels and all the restaurants that depend on that for their line of work. that means they'll be paying less in tax revenue to the ...

He got them. b, sequester came out of the economic team recommended to the president. the president got behind it. yeah, it passed with 174 republicans in the house. but it also passed with a majority of democrats in both houses. so everybody has skin in this particular game. i think at this point what republicans have been trying to say, sometimes not very well, is that we have gone to that -- to that edge on taxes. we've given in on the tax increases. howard makes a very interesting point. now the question becomes, do we go back and raise taxes on everyone or do we raise more on -- on the to...

The white house for us. good sunday to you, peter. so what are we hearing today from the white house on these latest remarks from speaker b e boehner? >> reporter: there's no real clear end in sight in the conversations we heard this morning, speaker boehner and his conversation with david gregory. also gene spurling who runs the national economic council for the president. basically his top economic adviser here that neither side wants to see a government shutdown. potential for that exists less than four weeks from now when what's called the cr, continuing resolution, where they would have t...

"meet the press," specifically addressing president obama's role in the debate process. >> he has a plan that he's put forward that involves entitlement cuts. that involves spending cuts. that you've made a choice as have republicans to leave tax loopholes in place and you'll rather have those and live with all these -- >> david, that's just nonsense. if he had a plan, why wouldn't senate democrats go ahead and pass it? the house has acted twice over the last ten months to replace the sequester. if we're going to -- the president counted his tax hikes on january 1st. >> democrats are firing ba...