They each have their own favorite things I guess.
This is why nothing ever changes.
The common denominator seems to have been a claim that the "cut" was the sort of thing better discussed at a committee level ~ WHEN they were preparing to go after regular departmental budgets.
I can appreciate some of this stuff ~ it goes on at the administrative level as well as in Congress ~ let's say you want to build a building (a capital budget item). You need to get it "authorized" at least one full budget year ahead of the authorization for "planning". Once you've gotten it into the capital budget cycle, it's pretty hard to kill it since there's going to have been considerable "sunk costs".
You need to kill such projects when they are just a name on a list ~ that was another "common denominator" ~ they were all long past "name on a list" time. The land acquisition program is a good example of a problem program that probably ought to be killed by some means other than fiddling with the budget authorization. This is the one where BLM, etc. work hand in glove with Sierra Club and some other organizations to deal with private bequests. There'll be a piece of BLM administered public land somebody wants to save and some little old blue haired lady will have donated her family's ancestral ranch to a nonprofit group for eternal preservation.
Money changes hands. Property is sold. Property is rotated around. Property is purchase, and next thing you know that ranch is turned into another ex-uranium mine with a rare species of fecebok!
For a variety of reasons the agency manipulating this stuff needs a special funding authorization ~ I suppose for those few seconds when they actually have to "finance" a purchase of some bequest by a third party.
No doubt there are other shenanigans.
Most Conservatives consider using the government in the process to be totally impermissible. Leftwingtards lap this stuff up and get a thrill thinking about how they "tricked the man" (that is, the little old lady whose bequest triggered the chain of acquisitions and sales).
Stopping this activity for just a few months with budget tricks is not going to work. To get at this one we need to go after the enabling legislation that allows that agency to buy, sell and trade land outside of having an approved capital project (such as is required of USPS, DOD and GSA).