“I'm not…worrying about sequestration…because [Defense] Secretary [Leon] Panetta has told the departments `Do not plan for it.' And the secretary of the Army, John McHugh, has said `Don't plan for it.'”— Lieutenant General Jeffrey Talley, chief of the Army Reserve, on Wednesday. He was speaking of looming Pentagon budget cuts of up to $600 billion over the coming decade if President Obama and Congress don't agree on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction package by Jan. 2.
