The problem with cutting costs is that nobody agrees on what should get cut. Everyone has their district and it's pet projects. The best way I've seen it done

The problem with cutting costs is that nobody agrees on what should get cut. Everyone has their district and it's pet projects. The best way I've seen it done is to just slash everything by the same amount. Sadly this results in things like closing libraries. Nobody agrees on what's waste and what isn't. If everyone agreed that X was a big waste of money it wouldn't exist, so we're stuck with a system where every dollar goes to a thing somebody cares about