People walk through Chattanooga Airport’s only concourse.
Visitors look down from the top of Wilder Tower in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Bob CorkerThe $1.2 trillion in federal budget cuts slated to take effect next week are a loud “wake-up call” to the country’s spending ills, Tennessee’s junior senator said Friday.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga, said he expects the cuts to go into effect Friday.
The United States, he said, would be “better off as a nation if we let the sequester kick in than we would to continue to sweep this problem under the rug.”
Still, the cuts, dubbed sequestration, are “a ham-handed” way to curb spending, Corker told a group of Chattanooga business people and others.
“The best thing for us to do is figure out a way wisely to reduce spending over the next decade,” he said. “It can be done in a way that does not have some of the negative impact we have with the sequester.”