Sorry I didn't hear anything of the sort
Administration officials said the president's budget would call for an overall increase of about 3 percent in appropriations for so-called domestic discretionary spending, which excludes the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Department and insurance benefits like Medicare and Medicaid.
How is increasing expenditures reducing government? Interesting also that the 'discretionary spending'(i.e. unconstitutional wastes of money) doesn't include the latest boondoggle to come from the 'conservatives', namely massive expansions in Medicare and Medicaid
It is reducing the relative size as opposed to the absolute size. If government increases at 3% and GDP increases at 5%, then the government gets small relative to GDP.
Of course, I would love to see someone reduce the actual size of government, but I doubt the political will to do it exists in anyone with the actual ability to do it.