promises unkept or bait-and-switch

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois lawmakers were poised Tuesday to vote on a plan to solve the state's $100 billion pension crisis - a proposal many are calling the most important vote of their careers and one that could deeply reduce the retirement benefits of hundreds of thousands of workers and retirees....
Illinois has the worst-funded pension systems of any state in the nation, primarily because lawmakers failed for decades to make the state's full payments to the funds.

Is it galling or is it galling when someone promises to do something and then weasles out without ever an apology or apparent effort to keep that promise? I'm not sure which is worse, taking back money from those who may most need it, or failing to admit personal responsibility.