18 Feb 2023 4:53 am
Mathematical semantics are a bitch Technically the answer they cut the spending by one billion is a matter of interpretation of the politics.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.
Numbers don't lie. No one can hide a 9 billion dollar increase.