When you have a debt based monetary system with the constant escalating inflation of course there is more spending.
Its not backed by gold or silver so the debt will always increase until people are carrying wheel barrows full of cash to pay for lunch.
The best thing they could do is keep pumping it so the families at the top will take a dive.
Then it can be rebuilt.
You cant remove the debt unless all the stolen funds are returned which is impossible and/or the military uses the war purse to pay the debt.
That dream of getting down the 35t has sailed.
The debt system will always grow.
This time you bitch about 2.2t but next time it will be 4.4t
Its the nature of a debt based system, the best thing for it to happen is to collapse.
congress doesn't balance the books like the American people have to rigidly balance their personal finances to survive.
I hope Trump goes scorch earth on the fed for this.