They could, but from the events thus far, most of our Senate, and the Democrats in the House don’t really care about running our national debt worse. They hope to add 350 billion by increasing taxes on the upper class. However, that fails to address even so much as the interest on the National Debt which, at 2% interest rate, is over $400 billion next year. Our politicians pretty much are screwing us with debt and increased taxes and unemployment, and half the population refuses to believe it.
They can't see it - out of sight, out of mind, like a stupid kid with a credit card before he gets his first statement.