“…President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would cut the federal budget with the help of his Cabinet, a proposal that analysts said was aspirational at best and unlikely to affect the skyrocketing federal deficit.
“We’re going to ask every Cabinet secretary to cut 5 percent for next year,” Trump said before a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
The president’s request is likely for his fiscal 2020 budget proposal, which is due to Congress early next year…”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/17/donald-trump-budget-cuts-cabinet/16703