If all government employees in Washington D.C. took a 10% pay cut, all of congress start flying coach class, quit funding the brunt of the UN which hates us anyway. stop hand out welfare checks to a plethora of countries that for sure hate us, and we drop all of the bi-lingual nonsense on government forms we could have some money to pay on our national debt. Taking this into account this list could go on for days and we could probably pay off the debt in record time.
I suspect that wouldn’t do it, that you would also need to cut spending on many entitlement programs.
You can’t ignore the fact that we have a growing number of people in this country with every single expense borne by the taxpayers: their housing, public education (and college), food (including free lunches and in some cases, FREE BREAKFAST - despite the fact that their “parents” receive EBT cards for these), and their medical care. Simply put, a growing number of takers, constantly reinforced by newcomers crossing our borders, have overwhelmed the makers (who for all intents and purposes have practically stopped breeding).