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Sequestration was established as a means to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to produce legislation by November 23, 2011 to further reduce spending by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

The automatic sequestration process threat was intended to force the Congressional Budget Committee on Deficit Reduction to present a reasonable plan to Congress. Predictably, it was unable to do as intended, since they failed to even submit a proposal, yet alone to pass the required amount in cuts by the end of 2012.

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