Your task is to get the debt to 60% of GDP by 2028. Are you up to the task? You are given a list of budgeted items to keep, eliminate, or alter. What did you decide to do with each one?
When you have acheived this metric, return to this discussion thread and share your results. Discuss your views on the process.
What did you find it hard to cut?
What surprised you that you kept?
How do you justify the cuts that you made?
How do you justify what you kept?
What are the consequences (intended and unintended) of those programs that you cut?
If you were a politician running for re-election, would the budget that you created be popular with your constituents back home?
Reference - The Debt Fixer - the National Debt(Committed to fiscal responsibility webiste)