As of April 1, cancer clinics began turning away thousands of Medicare patients because of sequestration spending cuts while the University of Iowa is using almost $900,000 of taxpayer money to study whether there is any benefit to sex among New Zealand mud snails.
It's taken about a month, but the mandated federal spending cuts of sequestration have finally started to have a real impact.
Not as dire an impact as President Barack Obama warned about in the weeks preceding the sequester, but the consequences are growing more serious every day.
But what's most galling about all this is that despite the real harm the sequestration cuts are causing, wasteful government spending has continued unabated.
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