Are We Going to Cut $73 Million From the Budget?

No.

Joe Biden is such a Continuing Resolution tease -- "Vice President Joe Biden told reporters following a meeting with Senate Democratic leaders that both sides had agreed on a number — $73 billion in spending cuts — but little else," reports National Review's Andrew Stiles, noting that Democrats continue to inflate their cut offer by including the amount that spending would have increased had Obama’s budget 2011 been approved. Shortly thereafter, Boehner's spokesman Michael Steel said, "There is no deal until everything is settled — spending cuts and policy restrictions. The Vice President simply hasn’t been at the table." Government shutdown, here we come. 

Biden is trying to count increases that never took place as part of the "cuts". In reality, very little is being cut from current spending. Just as Democrats love to declare that going from a 7% increase to a 5% increase constitutes a "cut", they're trying to insist that money that was never authorized and never spent constitutes a "cut". It's completely dishonest, but they're counting on the support of the media who will only report the $73 billion dollar figure without explaining how they got there.