FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, February 25, 2013
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2013-02-25

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, February 25, 2013
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 305 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Still no solution to the impending sequestration deadline of March 1,
which will result in across-the-board cuts to Pentagon and discretionary spending
(including NIH). The POTUS is doing some severe posturing that this is all the fault of
the Republicans and is having all of the Cabinet members out there saying how disastrous
the cuts will be. Meanwhile, Bob Woodward points out in an editorial in the
Washington Post on Feb. 24 that the POTUS “moved the goal posts” on the GOP by
wanting to bring up tax increases even though the original discussions surrounding the
budget deal of a few months ago is that the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire and so
taxes are “off the table”. Woodward says the POTUS now wants to put them back in
play. Looks like sequestration will occur.

Sad day in that former Surgeon General C. Everett (Chick) Koop dies at age 96. I had
the pleasure of giving the laudatios at his 80th and 90th birthdays. My quotes appeared in
many newspapers regarding his amazing life and also on local FOX TV.