Agreed. Obama is probably using the “baseline spending” ruse which has built in annual increases. Also, according to the article he is allegedly “freezing” only “non-security, discretionary” spending. That excludes so called “emergency” spending which is just about everything in the budget. He’s also probably excluding his “investments” which, of course, are not spending at all.
Maybe he meant we are going to freeze our butts off in all this global warming...