The Defense Department could use funding shifts to manage the impact of sequestration, but these tools would not significantly curb automatic cuts to key contracts and programs, a senior White House official said today. Danny Werfel, the Office of Management and Budget's federal controller, said DOD reprogramming requests would not be able to offset sequestration enough to protect top Pentagon priorities from the series of automatic cuts, which are due to take effect March 1 unless Congress takes action. "One...
