You’ve probably heard the old line attributed to the late Everett Dirksen: A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. One of the big Senate office buildings in D.C. is named after the guy.

Well, the Obama administration can’t find a small fraction of this amount — i.e., $100 million, which doesn’t qualify as “real money” in the Dirksenian sense – to cut from the federal budget, even in the wake of this year’s spending splurge:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — On April 20, President Obama challenged his Cabinet to cut $100 million in spending over the next 90 days.
The deadline came — and went — without a report from the White House on whether or not that promise was fulfilled.

How much is $100 million? Not much.