Congress decided to let the sequester take place, but the Obama Administration decided where the cuts would occur. Unfortunately, for the American public, many of the cuts seem to have taken place in order to hurt the public rather than to benefit it. For example, air traffic controllers were furloughed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in large numbers at the same time, causing flight delays until Congress directed that cuts be made elsewhere by the Department of Transportation to cover FAA's reduction.