English: Official photo of Senator Bob Casey (D-PA). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration will hurt everything from the local barbershop to the largest manufacturers in Northeast Pennsylvania, said members of a panel at Sen. Bob Casey’s office Friday in downtown Scranton.
With no deal between Congress and the White House in sight and just hours before sequestration kicked in at midnight, the Democratic senator and a cross-section of local civic leaders struck a dire tone.
“We don’t have a full sense of what will happen,” Mr. Casey said. “If this goes a day or week, it will have an impact. If it goes six months, the effect will be devastating.”
As the furloughs and cuts begin, sequestration will have an immediate impact not just on the government employees, but on contractors, and the communities where they live and spend.
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