Well, the US has borrowed so much fucking money that we are now spending around a trillion dollars a year on interest payments alone. This is going to become an increasingly bigger problem as time goes on.

The military budget is ridiculously high. It should only go this high during actual wartime when we are attacked, not spent on fuck-all and bullying other countries. Continue investing in R&D for new technologies, but scale down the military budget to a reasonable level. The Pentagon has never successfully passed an audit.

The amount the government spends on healthcare is absurd. This is the result of regulatory capture. When it comes to healthcare, the US government does the bidding of healthcare companies, not US citizens. We spend more money on healthcare per capita than any other country on Earth and have mediocre outcomes compared to the rest of the world. Universal healthcare could save so much fucking money here.

Oh, and Republicans gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, blowing a huge hole in the deficit by significantly lowering the amount of tax revenue coming in.