And they did this when?ConsRule » 17 Feb 2023, 8:04 pm » wrote: ↑ No they don't. In Washington, if a program has a budget of $100 billion and has a scheduled increase of $10 billion and they cut the increase to $9 billion...they say they cut spending by $1 billion. No, they didn't...they increased spending by $9 billion. Cutting spending would be for that program to have a budget of $99 billion.