The Reign of Pain Update

The Obama Administration continues to try to make the sequestration hurt as many Americans as possible, but the evidence continues to mount that, for the most part they are forced to exaggerate its effects.

On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters that major airports had seen lines ballooning to 150-200 percent their normal size

The Transportation Security Administration later clarified that it was not yet seeing longer-than-normal checkpoint lines, though Customs and Border Protection told CBS News there had been increased wait times at two airports due to reduced staffing.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, however, that "officials representing a dozen major airports said there were few if any unusual flight delays or lines at security or customs checkpoints." That included an official at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, which is one of the two airports that had been specifically cited by Customs and Border Protection.

On Friday, meanwhile, President Obama said that janitors at the U.S. Capitol would receive a pay cut due to the sequester cuts.

Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building and the Capitol Visitors Center, quickly emailed employees to say "This is NOT TRUE," adding that "The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted."

The prior Sunday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan had said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall."

He later acknowledged that he "misspoke" after fact checkers found no evidence for the claim.

And today's favorite, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden claimed that the sequester would result in far fewer immunizations for children as a result of cuts to the "317 Immunization Program", which would receive a $30 million cut as a result of the sequester. However, he was pinned to the mat by Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris during a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting who pointed out that the 2013 Obama budget proposal (which was not approved) cut the same program by nearly twice as much, $58 million: