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• OPM INDICATES $800 MILLION SEQUESTRATION COULD BE LOOMING NEXT YEAR - August 26, 2016

• Agencies Could Face a Nearly $800M Sequester Next Year

  By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  House spending proposals for next year would require a sequester of more than three-quarters of a billion dollars, according to a new report from the Office of Management and Budget.

  As they stand now, House funding bills would lead to a revocation of $775 million in non-defense discretionary spending from federal agencies' fiscal 2017 budgets, and an additional $17 million from defense spending. Senate measures, however, fall well under spending thresholds required by the 2011 Budget Control Act -- as amended by a 2015 budget agreement that boosted the spending caps for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.

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