spending and what they ultimately spend are two different things. and they often happen months apart. allowing for that, this was a package both sides praised because they promise to contain real cuts and house speaker john boehner set the bar high. >> we're talking about real spending cuts here, no smoke and mirrors. >> some of the math is kind of fuzzy. here's what some of what we uncovered. $350 million is supposedly being saved on dairy farmers. but they get the savings by not renews a program that was expiring anyhow. so decides not to spend more money becomes saving more money. they claim $650 million of so-called savings on highway programs but they use the same trick by not renews a one-time only expenditure. $3.5 billion from the children's health insurance program. but the money likely wouldn't have been spent in any case. and even if you calculate how much will be saved over time, not just cut this year, still