Texas — Government services at all levels would be impacted if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to avoid automatic $110 billion in cuts to entitlements and national defense in 2013.

That would be the first wave of sequestration, a $9-word for the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts occurring during 10 years if Congress and President Barack Obama can’t steer the country off what’s more familiarly called the fiscal cliff. 

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