Gov. Sam Brownback is back in Kansas from the National Governors Association meetings in Washington where he and a few other governors met with the President.  The President wants Governors to ask their Congressional delegations to compromise on the budget in an effort to avoid the so-called sequester.

The $85 billion in automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to be triggered Friday would trickle down to Kansas by taking $5.5 million from K-12 schools, furloughing 8,000 civilian defense workers and undercutting aid for child vaccinations.

Imposition of across-the-board reductions at the national level would occur under the sequester absent a brokered deal between the President and Congress.