It is how it is scored by doing a 10 year scoring... if you pass a budget with certain cuts then you track that out over 10 years to see how it would work out... pretty straight forward so I’m not sure why you are so amped up about it... next year they can come in and make a new budget that wipes out this years... that is how it is.
My point is that it would be more honest to talk about average yearly effects. Talking in ten year terms serves to make the cuts appear larger. So just take the ten year estimate, divide by ten, and talk about estimated average yearly cost.