freitasm:

 

"“We want to find the balance, actually - balancing wasteful spending so that we can protect front-line services, [while providing] tax relief and growing the economy. That’s the key thing that we need to land this quarter.”"

 

How do you "balance" wasteful spending? You think it's wasteful, you eliminate it, not "balance". Or perhaps he meant "manage" which is still not great if you think it's a waste.

 

I think he's just using word salads.

 

It's reduce, not remove, because they know there'll be an uproar if they remove some things they consider wasteful that other people consider essential.