The answer to Deficit Angst is to change taxation, or simply sunset-repeal of the Trump tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts, the Reagan tax cuts, and have the rich pay.
That will not happen, it is the answer, so stow the Deficit Angst for another day.
Strib link. "America should debate its broken fiscal future - Trump and Harris didn’t - and both would make the problem worse. By the Editorial Board at Bloomberg Opinion
A person can get tired of dumbfuck take tax reform off the table and then whine over growing the Deficit editorials. Easily.
Crabgrass is already tired. It doesn't take but one.