Claim: The sequester "won't consider whether we're cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day. It doesn't make those distinctions."
Fact-check: Barack Obama says sequestration cuts will be indiscriminate
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2013-02-21T00:00:00