The problem with that is that very, very few budgets ever get reduced, much less "slashed out of relevancy". Somebody will propose to increase a budget by a few percentage points less than what somebody else requested, the requester will go bonkers shrieking that the budget was seeing "draconian cuts" and that dogs and cats were going to start living together, people were going to wear white after Labor Day, and miraculously the program gets more money than it did last year. And certainly, budgets should face transparency and accountability, no matter their size. If the football or basketball team never has trouble getting new facilities built but math teachers have to work with 20 year old textbooks, there's a problem.