Even as the automatic spending cuts go into the fourth day, the gridlock remains in Washington D.C. between Republicans in Congress and the President.

The Republicans in the House are holding firm on their determined path towards a plan with deficit cuts to programs without raising no new taxes on the rich. Speaker of the House John Boenher says that they are not blind to the consequences on the middle class American as a result of the cuts, but are still going to push for a deficit reduction.

Boenher said, speaking of the sequester and Democrats in an interview with “Meet the Press” that was taped after a meeting with the President and other members of Congress, “I am concerned about its impact on our economy and its impact on our military. Listen, we have known about this problem for 16 months – we have known the sequester was coming. Where was the president’s plan? Why did they not pass something? And here we are, beyond the 11th hour, looking at each other without having acted.”

The Democrats, on the other hand, are pushing for a combination of spending cuts, revenue through taxes as well as entitlement reform. On CBS “Face the Nation,” Senator Dick Durbin said, “The notion of putting everything on the table: revenue, spending cuts, entitlement reform. If we did that, we would avoid these manufactured crises like the one we are in right now.”

As the stalmate in Wasehington continues, polls show that voters across America are faulting the Republicans more than they are the Democrats over the sequester stalemate.

Job ratings for the President are riding high in all polls except for those at Fox which shows the president at 46 approval to 47 disapproval. President Obama wants a combination of revenue increases as well as spending cuts to replace the sequester.

In a poll released late last month before the sequester kicked in, Republicans in Congress garnered only 24% of the poll from NBC/WallStreet Journal when asked if they were “looking out for the Middle Class.” Democrats did much better at 46% of the poll.

The sequester reared its head for the first time at the Pentagon. A descision was made to delay the deployment of the USS Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf which reduces the presence of Aircraft Carriers there to just one. The delay will save the Pentagon approximately $300 million. The Pentagon said that the decision was a necessary one to reduce the chance of not having combat-ready forces there later in the summer as cuts slice deeper. The Navy faces an $8.6 billion shortfall in it operations and maintenance budgets.