The government spending cuts in the United States as the President and Congress fail to reach a deal will also affect poor developing countries as the aid budget, especially for food and medicine, is reduced. ON MARCH 1, the United States government had to introduce spending cuts of US$85bil (RM263bil) for this year, as President Barack Obama and the Congress failed to reach an agreement on how to reduce the budget deficit. The so-called sequestration marked a new failure in relations between the President and the Republicans in Congress. The term dysfunctional is now commonly used to describe the US government system, as the deadlock between the President and Congress, and the animosity...
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