The Joint Strike Fighter — a new, high-tech jet known as the F-35 — is way over budget and years behind schedule. Yet Congress has not moved to clip its wings.
Businesses that rely on government subcontract work are wary of budget cuts potentially set for next year, even as they continue to deal with the fallout from last month's partial government shutdown.
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?