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.ScottMon » 17 Feb 2023, 6:31 pm » wrote: ↑ I have plenty of axes to grind with the Democrats but at least they have some members wholy try to reducing the crazy spending. We spend more on our military that any other country in the world.