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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday doubled down on President Obama's threat to veto any attempt to get around the automatic spending cuts triggered by Monday's failure of the debt supercommittee.

There is "no wiggle room" in the veto threat, Carney told reporters. 

"Look, those cuts in the sequester are broad and onerous for a reason, because they’re supposed to force action by Congress to avoid them. They’re never supposed to take place," he said. "And they don’t need to take place, and they won’t take place if Congress simply acts."

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