The first wealth of a nation is health.
The spending freeze and firings have jeopardized American health.
The new budget proposal will deeply wound Medicare.

The most simple way to see the American budget is that it is primarily a military budget with a health insurance policy including social security. Everything else is a skinny slice of the pie so small it is only seen by colorizing it.

Ending research in Alzheimers for example means losing the collected brain tissue which is an organic database. Turning off the freezer is a hell of a way to freeze spending.