He can write a bill reducing various budgets by the amount needed to fund the existing interest for a specified period.
No default, no ceiling increase.
People seem to forget that every agency spends to the last dime what it got last year even on stupid things they with destroy with the next years money. That was raised because ‘we used up what you gave us, now we need more!
Having been on enough Navy bases I see all the useless things that go up at the end of the fiscal year, and get torn down after the new money is voted in. $7K speed bumps in 5 mph parking lots was last year’s spending along with some unneeded statues that only God knows how much they cost. And those speed bumps were not tiny. My Corolla’s wheels front wheels just get over hafl a turn then the back wheels are hitting the speed bumps again. My bad back really loves all 50 of them in one parking lot.
Which has very little handicap parking, but a lot of parking for the Brass, up front., that just sits empty.
Plus some useless buildings went up.