Congress finally has approved a budget for the fiscal year that lasts until the end of September—leaving government employees who represent the indigent in federal court to confront what one called a "devastating" situation and another described as "really bad."

The budget Congress accepted late on March 22 headed off a threat of a government shutdown when existing budget authority expired on March 27. But the legislation restored only a small slice of the $350 million in automatic cuts that hit the nation’s courts earlier this month in the so-called "sequester."

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