and more efficiency, to take just one example, we ll give we ll save billions of dollars by getting rid of 14,000 office buildings, lots, and government-owned properties we no longer need, and make sure special interests are not larding up legislation with special projects, i pledged to veto any bills that contain earmarks. still, even as we cut waste and inefficiency, this budget freeze will also require us to make some tough choices. it will mean freezing the salaries of hard working federal employees for the next two years. it will mean cutting things that i dare about deeply, like community action programs for low income communities, and we have some conservation programs that are going to be scaled back. these are all programs that i wouldn t be cutting if we were in a better fiscal situation, but we re not. we also know that cutting annual domestic spending alone won ting enough to meet our long term fiscal challenges. that s what the bipartisan fiscal commission conc