The budget proposals were approved last week without discussion as opposition members walked out of Parliament demanding the resignations of the prime minister and two of his cabinet colleagues over allegations of corruption.
Chinese journalists were not allowed into the Kennedy Space Center for the May 16th space-shuttle launch as the result of a little-noticed provision in the federal budgetapproved by Congress in April.
In fact, the sequester formula preserves and codifies the spending priorities already previously approved by the Congress and Mr. Obama (as embedded in the Budget Control Act of 2011).