The interesting thing about the debt is that it costs 8.7% of all Federal outlays now verses 15% of federal outlays in the mid-1990s. Hence probably why Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago agreed with Donald Trump to get rid of sequestration which was holding the line on Federal spending.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/24/facts-about...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcancian/2019/08/03/goodbye-...