The government already had an office of budgetary responsibility and oversight. His approach was not one of someone who had carefully investigated the situatio

The government already had an office of budgetary responsibility and oversight. His approach was not one of someone who had carefully investigated the situation, found real issues, and was sensibly trying to fix them. It was an idiot with a chainsaw, chopping wildly at things, so that he could say that he'd made them smaller.