Yes, if government expenditures for unemployment, medicaid, food stamps and other support programs falls, then total government expenditures will fall too.
I know where you are going. You’re going to claim that politicians will find another way to spend it. But that’s a wussy fatalistic argument that says we shouldn’t even try to fix the economy because no matter what we do, politicians are going to take all the money.
Who knew that, if I only spent 10% more for everything, government expenditures would fall? [snort]