With his signature this week, President Obama will lock into place deep spending cuts that threaten to undermine his second-term economic vision just four months after he won reelection.
Obama has repeatedly championed a set of government investments that he argues would grow the economy and strengthen the middle class, including bolstering early childhood education, spending more on research and development and upgrading the nation's roads and railways. He has said his comfortable election victory in November shows the country is with him.
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