If Trump were smart, he’d cut whole agencies and departments that have taken over local power and that are corrupt. He should cut corporate welfare, corruption and deport illegals and end services to them, and do not import refugees.
He could do all that but it wouldn’t make that much of a dent in the problem.
The problem is out of control entitlement programs, which were out of control before Obamacare showed up ! Obamacare now became one more out-of-control fiscally unsound entitlement program to add to the pile.
The political problem is everyone has at least one entitlement program that they will swear they can’t do without! It’s amazing sometimes how many people who claim to be strong conservatives will find their “inner socialist” when you discuss entitlement programs. It’s entitlement programs are bad for everyone else but not for me!
That’s both the political genius of them and the trap of them. For example I am reading the history of Social Security program, the FDR lackeys new it would eventually become unglued but knew it would be some 70-80 years in the future so not their problem ! Sad thing is the insurance industry at the time warned them and told them how to set up a fiscally sound system. They chose not to listen and we have the rattle-trap system we have now.