A balanced budget? From this president?
Fat chance.
The weasels are in control of the chicken coop and intend to keep it that way.
And as interest rates rise, an increasing proportion of federal tax revenue will be diverted to meet the interest payments on the national debt.
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."-- President Andrew Jackson - (1824)