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Your questions are weakenings of the Feichtinger conjecture, which is equivalent to the Kadison-Singer problem. See

http://www.aimath.org/WWN/kadisonsinger/FrameProblems.pdf

and the references therein.

Your second question is Problem 2.2 there.

and the references therein.

The questions themselves are not obvious ones. Why did you ask them?

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Your questions are weakenings of the Feichtinger conjecture, which is equivalent to the Kadison-Singer problem. See

http://www.aimath.org/WWN/kadisonsinger/FrameProblems.pdf

Your second question is Problem 2.2 there.

and the references therein.

The questions themselves are not obvious ones. Why did you ask them?