There are plenty of issues that still need to be dealt with before any grand bargain — everything from the Farm Bill to unemployment insurance to the debt limit.

The budget deal that passed the House essentially undoes sequester cuts set for the current fiscal year.

The sequester will cut K-12 school programs like special education and English-as-a-second-language.

The IRS is canceling its Monday furlough day because it has managed to cut costs enough to avoid it.

The suicide rate for Native Americans is nearly four times the national average, but many tribes' mental health services have been compromised by the sequester.

Monday is day one of the sequester-driven defense cuts, including a one-day a week closure of all domestic military grocery stores.

Despite federal budget cuts from sequestration, the National Park Service says attendance is up in 2013.

Staffing cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services mean fewer cases of Medicare, Medicaid fraud are investigated.

The Pentagon starts furloughing 650,000 civilian employees next week.