You would be the first person to ever accuse the Orion program of cutting costs.

More precise would be:

NASA is an organization that is dysfunctional and way too expensive for what it does. It then decided to use agressive cost cutting to cover up these problems.

There's different kinds of costs: cost to the government, and cost to actually build the thing.

The contractor has no trouble inflating the first one whenever they can, but they want to strip the second one to the bone to maximize profits.