It's not an accident that Muskntrump are slashing federal spending but Trump threatened a government shutdown to get the debt ceiling increased.
It's all sleight of hand. The budget cuts are intended solely to cripple departments and programs that benefit common people or inconvenience the wealthy and empowered few, and all of the money that's not spent on those programs and agencies (and more) is going be funneled directly into the pockets of the wealthy and empowered few.
NO money is actually going to be saved. It's just going to be redirected, to even more directly benefit the wealthy few.
And you can be 100% certain that that blatantly wasteful spending is not going to be cut.
Meanwhile, paying people to oversee pollution levels and ensure that industries don't make it so that people are poisoned by the air they breathe - that's going to called wasteful spending and is going to be cut.
All so that a handful of billionaires can enjoy even more privilege.
The worlds richest man has installed himself as America's fraud watchdog. Finds zero so far, simultaneously winning .4 billion contract for his carbon credit company that makes cars.