I know that by and large the cuts have to be made across the board for all agencies.
But can the President, for example, in making the cuts to agency X, decide to close all offices serving agency X only in Alabama, Wyoming, and Oklahoma in order to make the necessary cuts, if that would meet the monetary requirements? In other words, why not make the effects of the sequester fall disproportionately upon Deep Red States? That might force Repubs in Congress to do something about replacing the sequester with something else.