Looming Sequestration: NC Has Uncertainty How It Will Be Carried Out

With three day away from the sequestration spending cuts, North Carolina stands to lose many important resources. The cuts would be come to fruition between March and October this year.

Tuesday morning on a media call with NC Senator Kay Hagan, she reiterated that our state has the third largest military footprint in the country.

"I've listened closely to our military leaders, they've testified before the senate and Armed Services Committee about  the far reaching negative consequences of these cuts," said Hagan. "Their testimony made clear that the future readiness of our military will suffer greatly under sequestration with training for non deploying units would be significantly curtailed."

Middle class families across the board will be shouldering the burden from the cuts, from paychecks to their kids' education, to health care reductions on our local economies. $25 million cuts to education funding are expected, putting 350 teacher jobs at risk.

"In the last four years we need to be reminded that we have already reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion in cuts and reduced spending by $1.4 trillion, but we do need to do more," said Hagan. "I pledge to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stop these cuts. We owe it to our men and women in uniform and we owe it to North Carolina."

Hagan shared that beginning on Friday, March 1, the services will begin to cancel third and first quarter ship and aircraft maintenance and the Navy proposes canceling $81million in maintenance at Cherry Point, alone.