One of biggest GOP proposed budget cuts is to a program that's already over. From the NYT:
Of the few specific cuts that Congressional Republicans have proposed in their promised assault on annual budget deficits, one of the biggest by far would save $25 billion over 10 years, they claim, by ending an emergency welfare fund.... seriously, the fund expired Sept. 30.
House Republicans have calculated the fund’s annual cost, $2.5 billion, and multiplied by 10 years, which is the common period for projecting budget costs and savings. The product: savings of $25 billion.
The actual math is simpler: 10 x 0 = 0.
