... and education, infrastructure, social programs, addiction treatment, low income housing, etc...

...but instead it's being hoarded to be transferred to private companies and individuals.

For this government, cutting funding in health, education, social services and infrastructure is intended to make them all fail so that privatization is the only answer. It's not some kind of accident or unexpected surplus. They are starving us.

Well it's not great. That $22.6 billion comes from not committing funding to any one thing and sticking it in a contingency fund. Since those funds aren't earmarked for any particular program services that rely on government funding have difficulties planning for the long term when funding relies on the largesse of the government in any particular year and those generous gifts can be taken away and bestowed to somebody else in the next calendar year. It makes programs reliant on being in the government's good graces and hopeful that funding their program advances the government's goals, much like nobles of old backstabbing each other to stay in a monarch's good graces.