The White House may be closed to spring break visitors because of staff shortages blamed on spending reductions, but it looks like the White House Easter Egg roll, a party for 35,000 hosted by the Obama family, is still on.
Since public tours of the White House are arranged through congressional offices, cancellation of those long-planned tours might place additional pressure on lawmakers who did not find a way to avoid the sequester.
But admission to the Easter Egg roll — a White House tradition dating back to 1878 — is handled by a White-House-arranged lottery, and any cancellation would reflect on the the hosts — President and Mrs. Obama.
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