The only way to pay down the national debt is by balancing the budget. And that's the last thing on their agenda, given that they want to increase the debt limit by $4T to give tax breaks for the rich equaling $4.5T. What I think they should be doing is requiring legislation in Congress to adhere to PayGo rules again like we did in the 90's. It will take around 5 years to balance the budget, and then 30 years to pay off all of the long term Treasury Bonds that are on the books. I think they should be building a 1% surplus and putting that towards replacing our Tax revenue with Bitcoin mining. Buy hashrate, we don't need a strategic reserve. Bitcoin as Money should be used, not hoarded. Buy hashrate, sell the bitcoin that comes out of the miners, put the money from the sale into the general fund. Keep building that for 30 years, and income taxes become unnecessary. Tariffs become unnecessary. The US dollar explodes in value because it's not being devalued every year because of the budget deficit. And when all bonds are paid off after 30 years, switch the Medium of Exchange to the Satoshi and let's expand to the stars.