It may be of interest that Obama was steadily reducing the deficit when he left. He had also been working on the national debt as well. Instead of continuing that the jackass Trump decided debt was good (he always did claim he was "the master of debt"). Anway, his solution to debt was simply to not pay it! He had a very long history of that.
Here are some links to understand the national debt (best I've found - easy to understand)
If you read it all it will help you, in part, understand why Trump is messing with SS.
https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-under-obama-3306293https://www.thebalance.com/the-u-s-debt-and-how-it-got-so-big-3305778https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-national-debt-4031393The result is that we have a president with absolutely no respect for debt. Since the Republicans are forgiving his behavior (they now admit that he did bahave badly) perhaps he will forgive the nation debt, destroy the dollar, and bring on a complete collapse of our economy. Then, perhaps, they might understand why the rest of us are concerned with his behavior?
