Um, no, it is already baked into the future budgets(escalator of never-ending spending increases for every single program(last time I downloaded the forward budgets was about 1.5 or so years ago ) unless the House Budget committee has the balls to restrict any of them. That is a problem given the $500 billion+ we have been adding to the National Debt every year for nearly two decades at minimum and much, much more in most years.
It is clear that is not going to change. I am and many of the fiscal conservatives are not for that. But the environment has long past to be able to make a reasonable majority of votes that would even bring the budget to just hold it to the nominal spending values from last year, much less any cuts.
"Crush the economy now?" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, wait till we are 30, then 40, then 50 trillion in national debt in the next decade. What will the economy be like when the interest on the debt doubles, triples, etc or can we just Q-Ease our way out again, and again? Fortunately the rest of the world is in debt for the most part as well.
How about baby steps of: Holding the budget to the same nominal figures for every department as last year. Then repeat as necessary till the fiscal house is in order. Let the HoR and Senate and Pres decide on a bi-partisan basis if one dept needs to be cut to add to another. Or, cut all of the budget by a nominal 5% then reallocate that clump of budget as the HoR, Senate, and Pres see fit.(so nominal flat budget but some are real cuts and some get more as best decided by the people in charge of such things)
Or just keep the escalator of spending rising to keep the crying to a minimum, AKA status quo.
I don't expect anything to be done to seriously address the deficit or the debt since the will of the people is to spend more, not less.
What is your solution, elfenix?