They push all the savings and cost cutting into the future, so they don’t have to deal with it now. So that when the future becomes the present, they could renege on the previous deal. We don’t even have to wait 10 years for them to break their promose. They reneged on the previous year budget fight already.
promose=promise
If a politician promises something ten years down the road, you now it won’t happen like the GOP malarkey about balancing the budget.
Joe Stalin used to promise a better life to his slaves in the USSR in five years with “Five Year Plans”.