Behold the Greatest Budget Gimmickry of All Time

Here's a helluva weird story from Jim Puzzanghera of the LA Times: The House Republican legislation scaling back Dodd-Frank financial regulations would reduce federal budget deficits by $24.1 billion over the next decade....Would reduce federal spending by $6.9 billion from 2018 through 2027....The bureau received $565 million in the 2016 fiscal year....The House Republican legislation would reduce the bureau's funding to $485 million in 2018, and the CBO estimated that Congress would keep annual funding at about that level, adjusting for inflation, over the next decade....
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/behold-greatest-budget-gimmickry-all-time