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[–] slwsnowman40 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So important question I've not heard or seen asked - is this 5% off the actual budget or 5% off the planned increases? Just making them work on a budget of say, $150 million for 2 consecutive years would be huge instead of $150 million for FY2018 and then $169 million for FY2019; assuming the budget would increase $19 million ($20 million minus $1 million, Trump's 5% cut).

Congress has done that before - reduced budget increases and called them "spending cuts" and the MSM pushed it as though budgets were actually reduced.