Senator Levin’s Opinion of Sequestration

There is no chance that Congress will repeal sequestration before he retires, but Senator Carl Levin, D-Michigan, insists that lawmakers might find a way to relieve the military and civilian agencies from automatic budget cuts next year.

“My hunch is it will be repealed or reduced, one way or another,” said Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

“I hope we can get rid of sequestration,” he said Sept. 24 during a breakfast meeting with reporters. Regardless of the outcome of the mid-term election, it is conceivable that Republicans and Democrats could find some common ground on which to build a budget deal that spares both defense and nondefense agencies from automatic cuts, Levin said.

The next round of spending cuts will begin Oct. 2015, unless Congress takes action. “When sequestration hits, people are going to start scrambling around,” he said.

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