[charcircuit]

Then you can argue why you still need the budget. It May make sense to temporarily allocate a bigger budget immediately to do those things instead of delaying, trying to save.

[idiotsecant]

Congratulations. Your budget is now permanently smaller because your appeals are completely irrelevant to the machine and you get to do less. Forever. Maybe you have to fire some people.

[charcircuit]

If you don't need a big budget then yes you should continue onwards with a smaller budget. That's not a surprising conclusion.