George W. Bush has cut precious little spending throughout his terms, it's one of the points of difference I have with the Pres. Taxes yes, spending no.
But the cross-eyed dithering masses will probably fall for it.
I can understand that frustration, but you have to remember there has been some dollar shifting, with additional $ going to projects the Bushies consider to be more important.
There are programs out there who aren't getting increases. (Government employees get a 'step increase' whether they get an actual salary increase or not). Salary and Insurance expenses are charged out to each Agency, and if they don't get an increased appropriation, they need to come up with it out of their existing budget (not a bad thing, just pointing out their Administrators need to make spending adjustments to recoup enough money to fund those increases for employees).
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone involved in writing the federal budget.
Darn George Bush, I found one of my chickens that went to the big coop in the sky and BUSH did it.