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By David A. Fahrenthold / The Bulletin
February 10, 2013
Late on the night of April 8, 2011, Washington’s leaders announced they’d just done something extraordinary. They had agreed to cut the federal budget — and cut it big.
“The largest annual spending cut in our history," President Barack Obama called it in a televised speech. To prevent a....