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The Donald Denied Reopening White House Tours, Obama May Anyway

March 13, 2013 By WHC Insider

Not even The Donald can reopen The White House tours shuttered by the sequester. Or to be more accurate, The White House said “No thanks” when the notable centerpiece of NBC’s The Apprentice took to his new beloved medium of Fox News to take on the administration.

In the ultimate act of media ourobouros, Politico quoted White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer on CNN earlier after Trump commented on a Tweet from Newt Gingrich. So much back and forth between the news mediums makes our head spin as pundits go from Twitter to TV to Politico and back again. So why exactly can’t it work? Pfeiffer explained earlier:

“It doesn’t work that way; we can’t have private individuals paying the Secret Service — so that’s not how it works. This is about a very tough budget cut that the Secret Service has to take because of the sequester. It’s why we should have avoided the sequester to begin with.”

Already Yellowstone announced a late opening–by a week–that has caused tourists and small businesses to grumble about experiencing the Great Outdoors. Meanwhile this morning President Obama may review the suspended tours for school trips and students according to Post Politics. From his interview with ABC News:

“I’m always amused when people on the one hand say the sequester doesn’t mean anything and the administration’s exaggerating its effects and then whatever the specific effects are, they yell and scream and say, ‘Why are you doing that?’ Well, there are consequences to Congress not having come up with a more sensible way to reduce the deficit.”

Filed Under: DC, Entertainment, The White House Tagged With: Barack Obama, DC, Donald Trump, News, Sequester, White House

Sequester Goes Too Far With White House Tour Cancelation

March 5, 2013 By WHC Insider

Starting March 9th, the sequester will take one of Washington’s few government benefits: the Official White House Tour.

Talking Points Memo confirmed, re-confirmed and then followed up with the White House phone reservation system:

What does The Daily Caller’s related article have to say about this? (“RELATED: Bob Woodward claims President Barack Obama lied repeatedly about sequester trigger”).

With hours to go before Washingtion is buried under the Snowquester who knows what terrible non-important fallout we’ll experience?

Filed Under: DC, The White House, Washington Tagged With: Media, News, Sequester, Tour, White House

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