“The point isn’t (at this point at least) to stop the debt from growing but to slow its growth.”
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Correct, and one way to slow it down is to make drastic cuts in government spending through elimination of waste, redundancies, inefficiencies, and outright mismanagement.
Hundreds of billions right there. But it prolly won’t happen because DC is corrupt and there’s no political will to do it.
I think that’s the reason there are attempts on Trump’s life. There are many agencies and groups that realize that Trump is going to try to cut off the big spending spigot.