Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused President Obama
of trying to hide the effects of next year's so-called "sequester"
spending cuts on government jobs in order to avoid alerting
workers that they could be laid off just before the election.
"The
president doesn't want people reading about pink slips in the weeks
before his election, so the White House is telling people to keep the
effects of these cuts secret — don't tell anybody, he says, keep it a
secret — until, of course, after the election," McConnell said on the
Senate floor Tuesday.
Read more on The Hill's Floor Action blog.
