date:Mar 07, 2013
President Obama to issue a sequestration order canceling $85 billion in budgetary resources across the federal government for FY 2013.
The budget reductions are equally split between defense and non-defense programs, including programs at both USDA and the Food and Drug Administration.
Specifically, OMB calculates a 7.8 percent reduction in non-exempt defense discretionary funding and a 5.0 percent reduction in non-exempt nondefense discretionary funding.