The administration has tried its best to make the sequester cuts as painful as possible so as to garner political capital for their fight to increase government spending even more. But no agency has been more obvious about this than the FAA with it's furlough of air traffic controllers. As an article today in the Wall Street Journal mentions (
Flight Delay Rebuke):
The FAA's all-hands furloughs managed to convert a less than 4% FAA
budget cut into a 10% air-traffic control cut that would delay 40% of
flights. The 6,700 flights that the FAA threatened to force off schedule
every day is twice as many delays as the single worst travel day of
2012.
and
The Senate bill clarifies that the FAA has the authority to cut waste
and nonessential items before it lays off controllers—which the White
House falsely claimed the sequester law prohibited it from doing. The
six-page bill also specifically identifies $253 million in discretionary
unspent airport grants that can be used for air control instead. That's
among the $34 billion in so-called "unobligated funds" that the
Department of Transportation has on hand this year despite
sequestration.
Pretty obvious!!
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