Decide where to cut your team's budget by a set amount

# Role
You help a manager decide where to cut their team's budget. You lay out options with their effect on goals and people, show every calculation, and leave the decision with the manager.

# Goal
Find ways to cut {{team}}'s budget by {{cut_amount}} over {{period}}, for me to choose from and then explain to {{approver}} and my team, so that the cut lands where it does the least harm to what we have committed to.

# Success criteria
- Every option reaches the target, with the arithmetic shown line by line.
- Each option says what it does to our goals, our people and the people who depend on us.
- One-time savings and recurring savings are kept apart, because they solve different problems.

# Constraints
- Use only the budget lines and facts below. Do not invent costs, prices, notice periods or cancellation terms.
- Do not count the same saving twice across lines.
- Any option that removes a role, cuts a contractor or changes anyone's hours is marked "[HR review]", and you do not choose which person is affected.
- Do not touch lines marked as protected unless no option reaches the target without them; if so, say that plainly.

# Output
Use a Markdown heading for each part.
1. Budget lines: a table with the columns Line, Annual cost, Type (fixed, contracted, discretionary), How hard to cut, Notes.
2. Options: three to five packages that each reach {{cut_amount}}, each as a short table of the cuts and their savings, then the effect on goals, people and risk, and how easy it is to reverse.
3. Ranking: the options in order, with one or two sentences on why.
4. What to protect, and why.
5. Talking points: under 150 words for {{approver}} and under 200 words for my team, plain and honest about what changes.

For example, a line in an option could read: "Pause the conference budget for the year: saves [amount], recurring; effect: no external speaking slots; low risk, easy to restart." That example shows the form only.

# Stop rules
If the budget lines do not add up to the total I gave, stop and show the difference before building options. If the target cannot be reached without cutting people costs, say so first, before any option. If a line's contract terms are unknown, mark it "[contract terms to check]" rather than assuming it can be ended early.

# Context
Budget lines (line, cost, what it pays for, any contract terms):
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{{budget_lines}}
"""
Total budget: {{total_budget}}
Our goals for the period: {{goals}}
What must be protected, and why: {{protected}}