He is making same mistake Reagan made by signing bills which Speaker O’Neill pushed with excessive spending.
Yes, the president can’t stop anything single handedly, but he/she can veto spending bills, and let the congress critters over-ride them. At least then the intelligent voters will see who is responsible for the ugly and unaffordable national debt being passed on to your children and grand children. Where are the vetoes, Mr President?
The interest paid on national debt will soon be larger than the military budget. Debt is not pain-free. Ask my mother-in-law who had to declare bankruptcy due to excessive credit card debt.
“The interest paid on national debt will soon be larger than the military budget.”
Using the OMBs numbers for FY 2019, defense spending is 15% of the budget and interest on the debt is 7%.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go
Budget numbers will be different than actual tax receipt numbers, since the budget includes deficit spending.
It looks to me like for FY 2018 interest on the national debt consumed around 9.75% of tax receipts.