*Administration of Barack Obama, 2013 *

**Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2014 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, As Amended **

*April 10, 2013 *

By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (the "Act"), as amended, 2 U.S.C. 901a, I hereby order that, on October 1, 2013, direct spending budgetary resources for fiscal year 2014 in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget in its report to the Congress of April 10, 2013.

All sequestrations shall be made in strict accordance with the requirements of section 251A of the Act and the specifications of the Office of Management and Budget's report of April 10, 2013, prepared pursuant to section 251A(11) of the Act.

BARACK OBAMA

The White House,

April 10, 2013.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., April 12, 2013]

NOTE: This order was published in the *Federal Register* on April 15.

*Categories:* Orders : Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, fiscal year 2014 sequestration*.*

*Subjects:* Budget, Federal : Government programs, spending reductions.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201300237.