There is also the option that both statements are true - which is where we are, now. You don’t pay it back and you don’t default, you keep borrowing.
Truth be told, you can “dig your way out”. Cut spending, maximize growth and begin paying down the debt.
Most people, however, are Grasshoppers and not Ants.
The “Joe Biden” regime was not a government at all, but rather, a colossal
racketeering operation. As we all know: racketeering is making money dishonestly.
<><>the grubby Biden Family stationed itself at the top of that putrid food-chain,
<><>trillions got creamed off by the big gators,
<><>the Bidens risked it all for a measly few hundred million,
<><>Biden Democrats gorging in foreign drainage ditches
<><>conniving Hunter making it all happen.