[DManA]

Cuts that would be painful for the bureaucrats, slackers, and hangers on that depend on boondoggles for survival. Cut -em loose I say.

painful cuts across a wide swath of government programs

[MadIvan]

I suspect any "cuts" are merely reductions in the rate of increase in the budget, rather than actually giving the departments less money than the year before.

Regards, Ivan